Financial aid is a complicated thing. The federal government has a philosophy on it. Your state has an approach. And your college has its own ideas about how to manage the state and federal funds. In...

You're not poor. You're fortunate enough to come from a family with a nice middle class income. You grew up in a home with two cars, a nice house, parents who have decent jobs, etc. So you...

Dartmouth has followed the lead of other top schools like Harvard, Yale, and Duke, and done away with its student loan programs. A number of top tier colleges and universities in the past few months...

The Counselor's Corner blog made an excellent point about financial aid: some of the best sources of aid are local. The nice people at the Counselor's Corner give their own examples. I went...

The Tampa Tribune reported today that Florida's oversight board for state run universities ordered the institutions under it to raise tuition by eight percent and begin cutting enrollment. There...

The Apollo Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix, was found liable this week for misleading investors and ordered to repay shareholders $280 million, according to the Associated...

On February 5th, when voters in California go to the polls they'll find a number of ballot initiatives before them. One of them, Proposition 92, could have a profound impact on funding for both...

Getting into college is partly about selling yourself - convincing someone else that YOU are the person they're looking for. While most college applications don't actually ask for one, it is...

Kentucky is facing hard times, and according to University Business it looks like the University of Kentucky may share in those hard times - at least over the next year. At the end of his first month...

It's a loaded question for a couple of reasons. We're talking here about accredited colleges. We're talking about four-year colleges. That leaves out many trade schools that use the word...

Ohio State played well on Monday night. Except for those 31 unanswered points in 28 minutes that they let LSU score, the Buckeyes put on a stellar performance... I suppose this is likely to be the...

Over the next couple of months we're going to visit and revisit the issue of getting into college. And step one is simple: if you haven't applied yet, you're running late and the time is...

Proposition 300, an Arizona ballot referendum that passed in November of 2006, has led to 119 students being reclassified from in-state to out-of-state status for tuition purposes, according to the...

If you've been bad mouthing the West Virginia Mountaineers, it's time to shut your mouth and eat your socks. Under the leadership of interim head coach Bill Stewart, WVU upset the...