Naviance
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| Private | |
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 2002 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Founder | Stephen M. Smith Shaun Fanning |
| Headquarters | Arlington, Virginia, U.S. |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Stephen M. Smith (president) Shaun Fanning (executive vice president) |
| Products | College readiness Software as a service Career assessment Test preparation School counseling tools |
| Website | www |
Naviance is an American college and career readiness software provider that partners with high schools and other K–12 institutions to provide students with college planning and career assessment tools. The company reports that its products reach more than 7 million students at nearly 8,500 schools in 100 countries.
Naviance was founded in Washington, D.C., in 2002 by Stephen M. Smith and Shaun Fanning. Its offices are currently located in Arlington, Virginia. In 2007, Naviance was acquired by Hobsons, a subsidiary of the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT). Like Naviance, Hobsons is a technology company that works in the education field. In 2010, Naviance acquired the college recommendation engine MyFit, which uses data modeling to help students to identify colleges that match them academically and socially. In 2012, Naviance acquired PrepMe, a provider of adaptive learning solutions for PSAT, SAT and ACT test preparation.
Naviance’s web-based software as a service platform provides students with a variety of features, including college research and matching tools, course planning, career assessment and personality tests, and surveys to help students connect what they are doing in school to what they would like to do once they complete their education. Naviance provides additional functionality to school counselors to track the progress of individual students, communicate and collaborate with students and families, or create reports on their entire student population. Additionally, Naviance’s integration with "The Common Application" facilitates the submission of college applications, as well as online submission of transcripts, school forms and recommendations through Naviance eDocs.
Naviance's scattergrams show the acceptance history of students within a particular high school to a specific college or university using the historical average GPAs and test scores from the high school. A Naviance scattergram is a scatter plot that shows students within a high school who were accepted, denied and wait-listed by a specific college using symbols in the graph legend.
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