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The Top 10 U.S. Colleges for Financial Aid
12:30PM 8/02/2011

Worried about how to pay for college? The Princeton Review this week released its financial-aid ratings for more than 600 U.S. colleges. Find out which ones came out on top.
Recently, Money College highlighted a number of schools that are bucking the trend toward ever-longer undergraduate degree programs. But for every school bucking a trend, many more exemplify it. That's certainly the case for the select 25 schools -- a number of them in Texas -- that wound up at...
Aid to Low-Income Students Puts State's Budget to the Test
12:00PM 2/23/2011
Indiana's 21st Century Scholars program has become a victim of its own success. It promises full college tuition for low-income middle school students who pledge to stay out of trouble, maintain a cumulative 2.0 GPA and graduate from high school.
And it works, academically: Participants are more...
Jobs Scarce for Lawyers With the Lesser Degree
11:31AM 2/09/2011
Like many law students, Nadia M. thought it went like this: You graduate, then you practice law.
But two years after earning a degree from Loyola University School of Law in Chicago and passing the bar exam, she's yet to land steady work with benefits. Despite networking aggressively, hunting for...
Groupon's Daily Deals Come With Cash Back for College Students
10:30AM 12/03/2010
The daily-deal website Groupon is sweetening its deals for college students when they sign up with the student-rewards program Edhance.
Groupon offers local deals through its site on restaurants, services and retailers every day, and students who are registered with Edhance can get 10% cash back...
For most college students, mid-November means cramming for finals and cranking out semester-end essays. But for those money-smart students who leave the library long enough to hit the mall, Black Friday sales afford the opportunity to buy stuff you'd get anyway, only much, much cheaper.
Even...
College Finance: Why Student Loans Should Be Pay as You Go
9:25AM 11/19/2010

President Obama's national deficit panel sparked an uproar from student advocates with its proposal to end the in-school interest subsidy on school loans. I'd go even further, and end the deferral of repayment until after graduation. Here's why.
In college sports, do big games lead to big fees for students?
11:15AM 11/09/2010
It's not a stretch to say that, for many college students, the best moments of their university years rage by in a blur of tailgaters and giant foam fingers.
At most major universities nationwide, college campus culture and athletics exist like conjoined siblings: fused from the moment of...
If you're a college student who acquires health care through your school, and you're following media coverage this week surrounding President Obama's health care reforms, your head might still be spinning in alarm right now.
Right-leaning commentators cooked up some juicy, almost gladiatorial...
It's the bitter little pill stewing in the subconscious of every brilliant writer here at Money College: No matter how many fascinating pieces we write about how to save money and soft-shoe smart with fall's best buys for dance clogs, or how to catapult yourself through a master's program in a year...
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