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Shouldn't We Be Able To Negotiate On College Tuition?
If someone offers to sell you a life-changing product ranging in price anywhere from $10,000 to $250,000 — maybe more — chances are that most of you will at least attempt to negotiate that price down;...
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Child Day Care Now More Expensive Than College In Most States
While much has been made in the last year about the soaring cost of a college education, it’s also worth noting that the price of full-time child care has continued to increase, even while many parents...
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Drop In MBA Applicants A Sign Of Economic Recovery?
“Maybe I should finally get my MBA,” is a thought that went through the heads of many an out-of-work or underemployed college graduate during the last few years. But the allure of becoming a master of...
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Study: Some State Universities Offer A Better Return On Investment Than Ivy...
(photographybynatalia)Sure, everyone has a hope that their kid can go to Harvard, Princeton — or even Brown, the Staten Island of the Ivy League — but a new study that compares how much graduates earn...
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More Than 1-In-5 Students At For-Profit Colleges Default On Student Loans...
(thoth1618)For the first time, the Dept. of Education has provided stats for people three years into their student loan repayments, and the numbers don’t paint a pretty picture. The percentage of...
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UNC Denies In-State Tuition To Veteran Because Her Husband Was Stationed In...
Thank you for your service.Anyone who has attended a public university probably knew at least one or two out-of-state students who gamed the system to get the much lower in-state tuition price. But an...
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University Of Phoenix Not Exactly Rising From Ashes, To Close 115 Locations
112 U. of Phoenix locations will remainWith enrollment and revenue declining, the University of Phoenix announced yesterday that it will close about half of its physical locations around the country in...
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Report Shows That College Debt Is On The Rise Again For Recent Graduates
(Tim Schreier) Today in discouraging news: the amount of college debt held by recent graduates is on the rise again. Two-thirds of the class of 2011 nationwide held debt on graduating, and on average...
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Study: Women Earning Less Than Men Immediately After Graduating College
(joelgoodman)For anyone who thinks that the pay gap between men and women is something that doesn’t begin until later in their careers, or that this salary disparity is a disappearing relic of a bygone...
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Some For-Profit Colleges Taking “Unlimited Data Plan” Approach To Tuition
(afagen)A number of recent studies have cast a negative light on the for-profit college industry. A disproportionate number of students are not graduating or unable to find jobs that pay enough to...
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Kentucky Sues For-Profit College Over Misleading Job-Placement Stats
Spencerian College, with two campuses in Kentucky, has been sued by the state’s Attorney General’s office.If you’re comparing college programs and see job-placement rates of anywhere from 80% to 100%,...
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Study: Almost Half Of College-Educated Workers Overqualified For Their Jobs
(owenkohai) Do you have a college degree? Do you have a job? You might well be overqualified for whatever it is you’re doing, suggests a new study, as almost half college-educated Americans are...
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Student Loan Debt Is Creating Generation Of High-Risk Borrowers With Low...
(afagen)Lots of people graduate college with minimal credit histories. Repaying student loans was always a dependable way to build that history. But recent, rampant growth in student loan debt in the...
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13 Attorneys General Voice Support For Federal Bill To Curb Advertising By...
Greendale, raccoon-free by 2014!Earlier this week, Senators Kay Hagan (North Carolina) and Tom Harkin (Iowa) decided to take another go at introducing legislation that would seek to limit the amount of...
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The CFPB Answers Your Student Loan Questions, Part 1: For Prospective Students
(Funny Strange or Funny Haha)A little while back, we asked Consumerist readers to send in their student loan-related questions to Rohit Chopra, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Student Loan...
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The CFPB Answers Your Student Loan Questions, Part 3: Defaulting And Loan...
(Chris Rief)In the second set of questions and answers about student loans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Student Loan Ombudsman Rohit Chopra made a few mentions of the various...
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Why College Isn’t Always A Good Financial Investment
Given that fewer than 60% of college students obtain a degree in six years, some people may be throwing money away — and piling on student loan debt.There’s no doubt that the average college graduate...
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Theme-Park Engineering And 3 Other Non-Traditional College Degrees That Can...
(afagen)Most people know that degrees in things like economics, business, mathematics, and medicine can lead to high-paying real-world jobs, while a degree in Tuvan throat-singing, while fascinating...
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Jury Awards Former Student $13 Million In Lawsuit Against For-Profit College
(steakpinball)One of the more common complaints against for-profit colleges is that the institutions make promises to prospective students about job placement and salary that the schools don’t make...
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Feds And Colleges Now Blacklisting Student-Aid Scammers
(afagen)More than 12 million U.S. college students applied for federal aid for the school year starting this fall, but around 126,000 of these applicants have been flagged by schools and the government...
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