A new way for students and their families to compare colleges â?? and for legislators and others to evaluate them â?? was unveiled Sunday with the start of a campaign to get institutions to sign up to use it.
â??College Portrait,â? as the effort is called, is a template for information that public, four-year institutions will provide online in an easily comparable way. Some of the information â?? statistics on the student body, figures on college costs â?? is fairly commonly found (if not always in comparable ways) on collegesâ?? Web sites today