Picking the Right College

Duke joins effort to provide prospective students with the information they need

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

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Durham, NC -- Selecting a college that best fits a student’s intellectual, professional, and extracurricular interests; values and personality; and financial circumstances is crucial to his or her satisfaction and academic success.

The first step in that process is finding the right information to make the right college choice. Over the past year, focus groups with prospective students and parents, conversations with Congressional officials and calls from the U.S. Department of Education showed there was a need for better information provided in a consumer-friendly format on colleges and universities.

To this meet this challenge, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) has developed U-CAN (the University and College Accountability Network), a free, consumer-informed college information website. For the first time, institutions of higher education have come together to develop and deliver key college information directly to consumers.

To see Duke’s U-CAN page, click here. To find information about other schools, visit the main U-CAN website.