US colleges get F in affordability
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A new, independent report card flunks America&#39;s colleges in a key subject for many students and parents: affordability. While noting progress in areas such as student preparation, the biennial
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Recent college grads face an important financial decision.
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American universities find themselves facing intense competition as other countries aggressively recruit foreign students.
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College tuition rose at a somewhat slower rate this year, climbing 10.5 percent at public four-year colleges and 6 percent at private ones, a study found.
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As college students nationwide settle into class routines this month, many of them are feeling the lingering pinch of an unexpected bill: the high price of college textbooks.
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Decisions by Harvard, Yale and other elite schools to make college more affordable to a larger pool of applicants might have the unintended consequence of harming less wealthy institutions and the students who attend them, some educators and financial aid experts say.
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When my 17-year-old son said he might want to apply to colleges on the West Coast, my wife had a flashback. When she was thinking about schools in the fall of 1970, she considered Stanford. Her father told her to forget it. His rationale: the cost of flying coast-to-coast, on top of tuition costs, would have made Stanford prohibitively expensive.
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Higher tuition fees will lead students away from partying and drive them to work harder, a study says.
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Every parent knows that college costs are painfully high, and yet so many people fail to save anything, even an amount that will get their child through one semester. Instead, they wait until their child is ready to go to college, panic and then turn to loans.
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Time is running out for the best deals on student loans.
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University officials argued that early admissions programs put low-income and minority applicants at a distinct disadvantage.
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U.S. News & World Report - The nation's 76 richest colleges earned a market-beating 21.3 percent on their billions of dollars in tax-free endowment funds in the fiscal year ending last June 30, according to a report issued today by the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
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Community colleges are being deluged with hundreds of thousands of students unprepared for college-level work.
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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts  - From Stanford University on the West Coast to the Ivy League schools of the Northeast, U.S. universities are in the grip of a building boom that looks set to extend well into 2009.
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A report card on the state of higher education nationwide gave Illinois generally high marks but warned that the affordability of college here had slipped.
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Will putting your kid through college put you in the poorhouse?
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A new study says hundreds of thousands of college students who may be eligible for federal financial aid don&#39;t get it for a simple reason - they don&#39;t apply.