U.S. News Media Group Launches Online University Directory

-- Portal Will Link Students with Degree Providers --

WASHINGTON,June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News Media Group today announced the
launch of U.S. News University Directory
(http://www.usnewsuniversitydirectory.com), an online portal focused entirely
on higher education and professional and continuing education opportunities.

Complementing the U.S. News rankings, the long-preferred tool for the
assessment of excellence in higher education, the University Directory helps
potential college-bound students and working adults further invest in their
future by serving as an online marketplace where they can directly interact
with colleges and universities.

The new portal - distinct from USNews.com - will provide consumers with a full
range of education options, including information about both online and
offline educational institutions, and will provide educational institutions
with an opportunity to showcase their degree and certificate programs in a
co-branded forum jointly created by U.S. News Media Group, America's Authority
on Education(R), and Bisk Education, the country's leading facilitator of
online degree and certificate programs from some of America's leading
universities.

The University Directory organizes schools in multiple ways including an
alphabetical directory of ranked and unranked schools in various categories.
"Not everyone is looking for a ranked school," said Brian Kelly, Editor of
U.S. News. "While the University Directory has ranking information, it also
provides a resource for many different kinds of students."

The site also includes interactive features and expanded sorting abilities,
and will present content about degree and certificate programs from U.S. News
& World Report's vast collection of the News You Can Use(R) service journalism
that has justifiably made it the leading source of news and information about
educational opportunities in the United States. It will also feature
informative content focused on providing information to consumers who are
actively looking for educational opportunities.

"U.S. News & World Report is the leading resource - both in print and online -
for students looking at college as well as adults searching for continuing
education opportunities, and we wanted to create a website focused on these
consumers and institutions," said Bill Holiber, president of U.S. News Media
Group. "With Bisk Education, we found a company focused on online education
with state-of-the-art technology and capabilities to create a dynamic
education-focused portal. Their proven success in working with colleges and
universities to bring their schools' online degree and certificate programs to
students made for a natural collaboration."

Holiber explained that USNews.com - the U.S. News Media Group's flagship
website - will continue to feature rankings and other college and graduate
school information, along with the public policy analysis, money, and health
content that has distinguished it as a leading provider of information for
consumers. "However, we realized that we needed to create a site with
navigation and design that was focused specifically on consumers who were in
the market for higher education opportunities," Holiber said.

As part of the partnership, all advertising from colleges and universities at
USNews.com and the University Directory will be sold by Bisk under the U.S.
News brand. "Higher education institutions need a credible and trustworthy
marketplace in which they can showcase educational opportunities and connect
with potential students that are suited to their programs," said Nathan Bisk,
Founder and Chairman of Bisk Education. "For the past 15 years, we have been
at the forefront of creating and executing online and distance-learning
marketing and recruitment campaigns for some of the nation's leading
universities. We know how to market in the digital age and we understand the
need to protect the integrity of each institution's brand while helping them
connect with qualified students. The new U.S. News Directory will allow
educational institutions the opportunity to meet the ever increasing demand
for university based education and workforce retraining that is in such demand
in today's economy."

For more information on the U.S. News University Directory, visit
http://www.usnewsuniversitydirectory.com.

About the U.S. News Media Group
The U.S. News Media Group is a multi-platform digital publisher of news and
analysis, which includes the monthly U.S. News & World Report magazine, the
digital-only U.S. News Weekly magazine, www.usnews.com, and
www.rankingsandreviews.com. Focusing on Health, Money & Business, Education,
and Public Service/Opinion, the U.S. News Media Group has earned a reputation
as the leading provider of service news and information that improves the
quality of life of its readers. The U.S. News Media Group's signature
franchises include its News You Can Use(R) brand of journalism and its
"America's Best" series of consumer guides that include rankings of colleges,
graduate schools, hospitals, health plans, and more.

About Bisk Education, Inc.
Bisk Education is the world's largest exclusive provider of professional
education online. Bisk's University Alliance division facilitates the
promotion and online delivery of associate's, bachelor's and master's degrees,
as well as professional certificate programs from the nation's leading
traditional universities and institutions. Powered by UA's technology and
support services, our university partners have surpassed 300,000 online
enrollments -- making UA the largest facilitator of e-learning in the country.
University Alliance partners include Villanova University, the University of
Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, Tulane University's Freeman School
of Business, Thunderbird School of Global Management, the University of San
Francisco, Florida Institute of Technology, The University of Scranton,
Dominican University and Jacksonville University.

SOURCE U.S. News Media Group

Liz Putze, eputze@usnews.com and Lucy Byrd, lbyrd@usnews.com, both of U.S.
News & World Report, +1-202-955-2004