News Release
The University of Detroit Mercy joins U-CAN initiative to help prospective students
The University of Detroit Mercy has joined hundreds of other private universities nationwide in helping prospective students better understand the quality of higher education institutions through a new, comprehensive web site.
Previously, no single objective consumer resource existed to help prospective students choose a college or university that best fit their individual needs. UDM was one of about 600 schools that worked with the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) to offer a new web-based project called U-CAN (University & College Accountability Network).
Through the U-CAN network, students and families have free online access to objective and measurable data supplemented by targeted hyperlinks to an institution's web site. Through the initiative, UDM is working with other institutions to offer consumers the information they need to make the best college choice for them.
NAICU's U-CAN is designed to provide, in a common format, more concise, web-based, consumer-friendly, searchable information on individual private colleges and universities.
Data and narrative sections within the institutional profiles covers: admissions, enrollment, academics, student demographics, graduation rates, most common fields of study, transfer of credit policy, accreditation, faculty information, class size, tuition and fees trends, price of attendance, financial aid, campus housing, student life, and campus safety.
The initiative gained momentum and national attention when dozens of colleges and universities publicly announced their decisions not to participate in the most heavily weighted component of U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of "America's Best Colleges." The web-based consumer resource launched last month and does not include reputation surveys or rankings.
To learn more information on hundreds of private colleges and universities, visit the U-CAN web site at: http://www.ucan-network.org/
Release date: October 02, 2007
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