The stated purpose of education180.com is to connect individuals with the school or degree program that suits their needs. The home page displays links to brief informational articles relating to education choices. A link is displayed for a directory of participating schools. Other featured blocks contain links to browse by program or degree level.
All of these links lead to an online form to request information from a participating school. A list of ‘Other Recommended Schools’ is found below the form for the selected school and includes link lists of some available programs and a button to request information from each school. The request for information forms require full name, mailing address, telephone numbers, current education level, residency and military status.
The privacy policy for this site states that users who submit a request for information will be contact by one or more schools via telephone and/or email. Users are also informed the site reserves the right to sell information submitted herein. There is no SSL encryption used on this site. This site is rated safe by Norton Safe Web and McAfee SiteAdvisor. However, multiple user reviews warn against excessive spam. The Mozilla Firefox add-on Web of Trust rates this site as poor also due to excessive spamming.