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Younger people, who historically have made up the majority of the college-going population, are especially dubious of higher education’s value. Read the article here.
College tuition is a large financial burden—especially now—and students want to see change. Read the article here.
Forty-five million Americans owe a collective $1.6 trillion in student debt. One columnist describes why her daughter won’t be one of them. Read the article here.
After languishing for a few years, support for teaching money-management skills to high school students has reignited, financial literacy advocates say. They attribute much of the newfound interest to worries about mushrooming student debt. Read the article here.
Colleges are offering accelerated degrees, giving students the opportunity to graduate sooner and with less debt, but is this a good idea? Read the article here.
USA Today highlights experiences with so-called student loan debt help companies. Read the article here.
We’ve all seen the staggering student loan debt statistics: It averages more than $20,000 and 69% of Millennials have student loan debt, according to the Federal Reserve of New York. What the numbers don’t tell us is what is going on in Millennials’ minds before they take on this debt.
Read the rest of the article here.
About half of students blow some of their school loan money on non-educational expenses, including 3% who spent it on alcohol and drugs, according to a new Student Loan Hero survey.
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More than a third of 18- to 35-year-olds say they wish they had not gone to university, according to a new survey, while almost half say they would have got to where they are now without a degree.
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Tim Elmore has spotted four myths people tend to buy into about post-secondary education—and he’d like to help you avoid them.
Read his blog post here.
