Student Loans

Here’s How Much the Class of 2016 Owes on Their Student Loans

By Beth Braverman

Students who graduated from college in 2016 with educational loans borrowed slightly less to pay for school than those who finished in 2015, new data shows.
The Best Colleges for Older Students

By Beth Braverman

By 2020, nearly one in five students in higher educations will be over the age of 35.
5 Things You Need to Know About the New FAFSA Deadline for College Aid

By Beth Braverman

High school seniors who are college-bound may still be visiting schools and studying for their SATs, but they need to add one more task to their fall to-do list: Fill out the FAFSA. In previous years...
Clinton's Public College Plan Gives Wealthy Kids a Free Education

By Preston Cooper

Democrats may finally be waking up to the reality that free tuition at all public colleges and universities would be a giveaway to richer Americans who do not need help paying for higher education...
Here’s Why You Should Never Co-Sign a Loan

By Janna Herron

Of course, you want to help your kid out. But skip co-signing that car loan unless you’re willing and able to foot the entire bill, because there’s a good chance you’ll have to. Almost two in five co...

6 Ways Student Loan Payments Are Making Our Lives Worse

By Beth Braverman

The high cost of student loans is continuing to affect Americans’ life choices, to the point that many people say they would have selected a cheaper way of getting a college education if they had it...
The Hidden Cost of a College Education

By Beth Braverman

Now that a few weeks have passed since National College Decision Day, the elation (and relief) of finally committing to a school may be wearing off. You probably already calculated the financial aid...
Which Money Worries Keep You Up at Night?

By Janna Herron

Three in five adults are losing sleep over financial anxieties, according to a new poll, with women more likely to find themselves up at night than men. Older Americans were the most likely to get a...
How You Can Escape Student Loan Repayment

By Millie Dent

If your dream job is to be a teacher, a public defender or to milk cows in North Dakota, you’re in luck. A number of programs will forgive your student loan debt—if you’re eligible. These state and...
How Obama Wants to Make It Easier to Pay Your Student Loan

By Brianna McGurran, NerdWallet

Can you name your student loan servicer? If the federal government’s new proposal goes according to plan, you won’t have to. The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday that it wants to...

How to Nab Free Money for College

By Kelley Holland, CNBC

Getting to college is almost a full time job these days. Between standardized tests, lengthy applications and the search for financial aid, many high school students devote many hours each week to...
The New SATs and the Great Delusion of Excellence

By Peter Wood, Minding the Campus

The College Board is reformulating the SAT. Again. The new changes, like others that have been instituted since the mid 1990s, are driven by politics. David Coleman, head of the College Board, is...
More Financial Aid May Push Up College Prices

By Kelley Holland, CNBC

Experts say parents who try to negotiate their children's merit aid packages can help fuel an arms race: The more aid a college shells out, the more it has to make up the difference somewhere else—...
Why Inequality Among Colleges Is on the Rise

By Jonathan Marks, Minding the Campus

College fundraising was up 9 percent last year, says the Council for Aid to Education, but there's a worrisome statistic: 17 percent of the $34 billion raised went to ten already wealthy institutions...
The College Failure That Costs Taxpayers $12B a Year

By Richard Vedder, The Fiscal Times

Critics of American higher education usually focus on the deficiencies of college graduates: For example, their critical thinking isn't much better than that of college freshmen, or they increasingly...

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