This Is the Way the College ‘Bubble’ Ends Not with a pop, but a hiss By Derek Thompson For the past few decades, the unstoppable increase in college tuition has been a fact of life, like death and taxes. The sticker price of American college increased nearly 400 percent in the last 30 years, while median household income growth was relatively …
State Funding Cuts Matter
By Rick Seltzer Have public funding cuts caused colleges and universities to raise tuition? It’s a deceptively simple question. And it’s caused two different camps to dig in, look at similar data and yell past each other with very different answers. “For every $1,000 cut from per-student state and local appropriations, the average student can be expected to pay …
9 Reasons You Won’t Get Financial Aid
Financial aid is not just for families with low income! It is for all who qualify. Unfortunately most mistakenly assume they do not. Many families are misinformed and lack guidance so they just don’t apply. I have seen families with household incomes over $200,000 per year qualify for over $10,000 in financial aid. Secondly, according to FastWeb.com, 30% of all …
Bloomberg View: The U.S. Needs to Invest in Minds, Not Miners
Otherwise the job market will leave a lot of men behind. By Caroline Freund and Christine McDaniel In J.D. Vance’s memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” which recounts the blasted hopes of those left out of the modern economy, grandfather Papaw makes a prescient prediction: “Your generation will make its living with their minds, not their hands.” What Papaw didn’t foresee was that this shift would be far easier …
Colleges with Full Ride Scholarships
Posted by Mary Ann Barge of PrepScholar 81 Colleges with Full Ride Scholarships You’ve worked hard all through high school and are an extracurricular superstar. You’re looking forward to the challenges that college will bring. But are you ready for the challenge of paying for college? There are a lot of ways that students come up with the money to fund their …
Student Loan Repayment: Today’s Most In-Demand Employee Benefit
By Jeff Oldham Recent college graduates across the country are grappling with how to pay their rent, bills and, most crippling, the massive amount of student debt they’ve accumulated over the last four or more years. And it’s not just students that are saddled with college debt – it’s also the parents and guardians that put them through school. Student …
How To Save Over $20,000 On College Costs
The High Price of Not Completing College in Four Years Most students take longer to graduate, so schools are trying to do something about that By Lisa Ward How can you save over $20,000 on college costs? Graduate on time. At four-year schools, only about 40% of full-time students graduate on time, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, …
Is this the case in ALL states?
Private colleges appear to be a better deal The Sunday Dispatch editorial “Affordability is best selling point” built on findings from an article in Friday’s newspaper that Ohio ranks 45th in the United States in terms of affordability of its state schools. Yet the editorial lumped in private nonprofit colleges, as if they were part of the problem, as well. …