Noel-Levitz, the nation’s leading higher-education consulting firm, and the National Research Center for College & University Admissions (NRCCUA), the nation’s leader in surveying high school students, announced today that they are forming a strategic partnership to provide targeted lists of prospective students and related predictive modeling capabilities to colleges and universities. Also as part of the alliance, NRCCUA has assumed management of "My College Options," the Noel-Levitz college-planning and matching service.

The new prospecting service combines Noel-Levitz’s enrollment management and analytical expertise with NRCCUA’s student research resources to allow colleges and universities to acquire names from NRCCUA’s database of college-bound students that have been further refined with Noel-Levitz’s predictive models. The result: a more-targeted student prospect list for admissions offices.

Kevin Crockett, Noel-Levitz president and CEO, said, "Our strategic alliance with NRCCUA provides our customers with the ability to mine a 5.7-million-student database for ‘best fit’ prospects using the most sophisticated predictive modeling tools available. This new service will provide colleges and universities with the most comprehensive and robust set of prospecting services available in the marketplace."

NRCCUA will expand the My College Options service and integrate it into its suite of college planning services. "My College Options is a strong complement to the NRCCUA Talent Identification Program©, through which colleges, universities, and educational organizations can access names, addresses, academic interests, and abilities of college-bound high school students," said Don Munce, president of NRCCUA. "Students and college enrollment officers will benefit by the inclusion of My College Options with NRCCUA’s other survey tools."

My College Options was launched in September 2001 and has been used by nearly 1 million high school students. This free service for students, their parents and high school counselor’s helps college-bound students explores a range of post-secondary opportunities available to them and links them to institutions that match their interests.

About NRCCUA

The National Research Center for College and & University Admissions (NRCCUA) is a non-profit educational research organization based in Lee’s Summit, Mo. For over 30 years, NRCCUA has conducted the largest nationwide survey of high school students, which serves as a communications link between college-bound high school students and public and private colleges and universities. For more information, visit www.nrccua.org.

My College Options is the only free post-secondary planning service that provides valuable feedback directly to students, parents and counselors, both through personalized reports and via a secure Web site. To search for schools that complement their personal goals and interests-including academics, co-curricular, hobbies, preferences and attitudes-students can log onto www.mycollegeoptions.com or create a profile by completing a 15-20-minute survey administered under teacher/staff supervision at schools that have received the form. The system delivers students personalized reports with up to 20 colleges from the more than 3,500 accredited two- and four-year, public and private post-secondary institutions nationwide that best match their profile. Students indicate their desire to have colleges contact them directly.

About Noel-Levitz
Noel-Levitz is a nationally recognized consulting firm specializing in higher education student recruitment, financial aid, student retention, market research, publications and Web development. Since 1973, Noel-Levitz has partnered with more than 1,700 colleges and universities throughout North America. Noel-Levitz has offices in Denver, Iowa City, and Guelph, Ontario, and is a Sallie Mae company.