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College Pricing Black Box: How Colleges Inflate the Cost of a Degree
The price a college advertises and the price a family actually pays out of pocket are two very different numbers, and the distance between them is ra…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Gen Z Got Only 38% Right On A Basic Money Quiz — The Worst Of Any Generation
Americans' financial literacy has slipped to its lowest level in a decade, according to the 2026 TIAA Institute-GFLEC Personal Finance Index released…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Mizzou Tuition Rising 4% This Fall After Board Of Curators Vote
The University of Missouri System Board of Curators voted unanimously Thursday to raise undergraduate tuition 4% across all four campuses for the 202…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Cal State Approves 3-Year Bachelor’s Degrees Across All 22 Campuses
California State University, the largest public college system in the U.S., just voted to allow (PDF File) the creation of bachelor's degrees that ca…
4 weeks ago
Education Department Sends SAVE Borrowers a “Courtesy” Warning Before July 1 Formal Notices Begin
The U.S. Department of Education has started emailing borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan a second round of reminder…
1 month ago
How Mandatory College Fees Like SMU’s $8,080 Catch Families Off Guard
Families comparing colleges usually start with the published tuition number. That number is rarely what they will actually owe. While most families d…
1 month ago
Wage Garnishment On Defaulted Student Loans Restarts This Fall
The U.S. Department of Education, with the Department of Treasury, plans to resume administrative wage garnishment on defaulted federal student loans…
1 month ago
Dan Zibel of Student Defense on AI in Admissions, Student Data Rights, and the AI Bill of Rights
Student Defense co-founder Dan Zibel joins The College Investor at the ASU+GSV Summit to talk about how colleges are using AI in admissions, grading,…
1 month ago
UC Irvine Cuts MBA Tuition to $99,000 to Slip Under New Federal Loan Cap
UC Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business is cutting tuition on its Flex MBA program by $30,000 and its Executive MBA by $48,000 starting this fall …
1 month, 1 week ago
Education Department Stops Updating Key School Data After Cutting Research Arm
Key federal databases that tracked American schools since 1962 is now running on outdated numbers. After Education Department gutted their research a…
1 month, 1 week ago