OREANDA-NEWS. August 18, 2015.  Fitch Ratings has released its Fitch Analytical Comparative Tool (FACT) for the Private Higher Education and Public Higher Education subsectors of U.S. Colleges and Universities.

FACT is an interactive Excel-based analytical tool for comparing an institution's key financial metrics to median calculations on a notch-specific rating basis, compared to entities rated within the same rating category (e.g. 'AA', 'A', 'BBB') and against Fitch's portfolio of credits.

The FACT and Fitch's recently published median reports for U.S. private and public colleges and universities are available at 'www.fitchratings.com' or through the links below.