Marymount Manhattan Participates in U-CAN Initiative

The uniformity, accessibility and clarity of U-CAN profiles provide an alternative to the U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings. The U-CAN Web site is structured by findings of focus groups conducted in cities across the nation, in which prospective students and parents from all backgrounds identified the information they most need to make an informed college choice. U-CAN profiles include information identified by policy-makers as important for institutional accountability. Congress and the U.S. Department of Education have called for comparable, concise, relevant, and easily accessible information to help the public better evaluate and choose colleges.

The in-depth information included in the college and university 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 fee trends, price of attendance, financial aid, campus housing, student life, and campus safety. U-CAN will give consumers easy access to information on average loans at graduation, undergraduate class-size breakdown, and net tuition for hundreds of colleges.

The U-CAN Web site went live on September 26, 2007. More than 600 private colleges and universities have signed on to participate in the initiative and over 440 institutions have published profiles on the Web site thus far.

The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) launched the U-CAN initiative. NAICU is the largest organization representing nonprofits, with nearly 1,000 private institutions and associations throughout the United States as members. The profiles are displayed in a common template that NAICU developed.

Click here to visit the MMC U-CAN profile.

Published: October 18, 2007