What do you get when college costs skyrocket but incomes barely budge? Yet another blow to the middle class. “As the out-of-pocket costs of a college education go up faster than incomes, it’s pricing low and medium income families out of a college education,” said Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of financial aid sites FinAid.org and FastWeb.com [...]
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The amount of money flowing into government-sponsored 529 plans has surged 75% in the last two years as fear of rising college tuition trumps fear of the stock market. Still, contributions remain well below the 2006 peak. Fear of rising college tuition is trumping fear of the stock market. Contributions to government-sponsored college-savings programs are [...]
Jamira Burley from Temple University and Christopher Gray from Drexel have both successfully paid for college using scholarship money. Burley raised over $56,000 while Gray won a whopping 1 million plus. They urge students to apply for scholarships but beware of the scams out there.
Phone lines were open from for two and a half hours where experts from the Mayor’s Office of Education and Financial Aid Administrators answered your most important student loans questions.
Bonnie Lee Behm, Director of Financial Assistance at Villanova University, answers some popular financial aid questions that can help many people searching for grants.
Pennsylvania State University President Graham Spanier is taking the fight against education budget cuts to the state Legislature. In opposition to Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed budget, Spanier and other state-related university leaders from Lincoln University, Temple University and the University of Pittsburgh will be arguing the case of restoring adequate funding for their respective universities [...]
Gov. Corbett’s plan to cut higher education funding by half would inevitably mean tuition hikes, staff reductions, and even fewer students, administrators at Pennsylvania’s colleges and universities said Tuesday. “A funding gap this large is going to fundamentally change the way we operate,” said Pennsylvania State University president Graham Spanier, “from the number of students [...]
If Alison Sadock had finished college before the financial crisis, she probably would have done something corporate. Maybe a job in retail, or finance, or brand management at a big company — the kind of work her oldest sister, who graduated in the economically effervescent year of 2005, does at PepsiCo. “You know, a normal [...]
College grads are getting offered bigger paychecks for the first time since 2008. Students who will graduate this spring are receiving job offers with starting salaries averaging $50,034 per year, up 3.5% from last year, according to a survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Meanwhile, employers surveyed by NACE said they plan [...]
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