Responding to calls for more accountability in higher education, the trade group representing the nation's private colleges and universities unveiled a Web site on Wednesday that gives prospective students more information about the schools.

Want to know the student-faculty ratio at Loyola University Chicago? (13:1)

How about the percentage of freshmen who return for their sophomore year at Elmhurst College? (79 percent)

And the average loan debt of Lake Forest College undergraduates? ($19,976)

The site -- ucan-network.org -- comes after pressure from Congress and Education Secretary Margaret Spellings' higher education commission to provide more consumer-friendly tools for students and families weighing their college choices.

The Education Department also updated its Web site this week to make it easier to evaluate and compare colleges.