<p>From my understanding the clearinghouse operates on several levels, which are offered to schools based on how much they pay. </p>
<p>Loan reporting, and hence enrollment data collection, is a free service offered to colleges if they agree to give student info: dates of attendance, degree earned, etc. The clearinghouse then process their federal loans for free.</p>
<p>The next step, for a fee from the schools, involves transcript ordering, enrollment verification, etc.</p>
<p>The next level of private information trading involves admission past enrollment bundling, and has another fee.</p>
<p>From my understanding, few foreign universities are clients of clearinghouse, and to my knowledge, the ones that are are only cooperating with the first level, loan reporting--I assume because they have several U.S. study abroad students/semester. (Would this include U.S. students using federal loans or all U.S. students?) (Would it include foreign national students, such as Canadian/UK students studying in Canada/UK that do not have social security numbers?) (Is date of birth used?) There is a list, current as of 2010, that lists foreign university clients. </p>
<p>From my understanding, no foreign universities use transcript service, past admission service, etc., as it would not be financially viable (not that the clearinghouse doesnt send agents to encourage business contracts with these schools [I've seen the powerpoints they use]). Therefore, few foreign national schools contract student information with the clearinghouse, none contract beyond enrollment information reporting, and no non-U.S. students' information is reported?</p>