Student Loans

Students have only a day left to file for free financial aid and the Department of Education warns students of potential scams as the time to file draws closer. Midnight June 30 (Central Daylight Time) marks the deadline to file a FAFSA, or free application for federal student aid. But the...

Starting July 1, more federal money will be available for summer financial aid to help students in need, and likewise, more students will be eligible for assistance. Even some parents will have a better opportunity of qualifying for summer financial aid this year to make up for any shortages they...

If anyone seemed to have a valid excuse for not repaying his student loans, it was this 25-year-old Chicago man, battling a mental illness and unable to hold a job. Like other college graduates who have tried to escape his school debts, this man (who did not want to be named for this story) was...

Ever since she watched an inner-city teacher change the lives of his calculus students in the movie "Stand and Deliver", Rita Soledad Fernandez knew she wanted to be a math teacher. "I see education as a way of social change," Fernandez said in an interview with WalletPop. "I wanted to teach...

College of the Ozarks, outside Branson, Missouri, is one of the most unusual universities in America: It's free. All students have to do in exchange for a free education is agree to work 15 hours a week. Students don't pay tuition, and they graduate debt-free. In exchange, though, they may have to...

Linda calls me up first thing in the morning just about every single day. She rings with such regularity, in fact, that I hardly need to set an alarm clock anymore. I'm usually too groggy to answer, but when I check my voicemail, I can picture the dimple-bursting smile on her face as she chirps...

Tuition Ignition: A week-long series looking at the soaring cost of college at public and private institutions If you've read this week's Tuition Ignition series closely, you may have wondered why we didn't include community colleges or for-profit private institutions, such as University of...