graduate school

With student loan default rates rising due to persistently high unemployment rates, it's easy to vilify the seemingly endless monthly payments that follow graduation. But take a closer look, and you'll find that the news about student loans is more good than bad.

With unemployment high and wages stagnant, now's a rough time to be entering the job market. Historically, when a harsh economy awaits, young people tend to run for cover in grad school. It's a smart strategy -- unless you pick the wrong field of study.

This week, researchers at Georgetown took the nation's humanities majors to task for making such unlucrative choices in college. But their report takes too shallow a look at the results of not becoming an engineer. Former Latin American Studies major Loren Berlin offers a wider take on the real value of a B.A. in the humanities.

Few students coming out of college are able to find full-time work in their fields, and it's tempting to spend tens of thousands more on grad school in hopes it will eventually pay off. Here's why you should seriously consider other options.

In these tough economic times, people are leaning on their credit cards more than ever. So when it comes time to decide which bills to pay, those are the ones that make it to the top of the pile. Credit reporting agency TransUnion reported Monday that credit card delinquency rates fell in the...

A bachelor's degree in international politics could get one far, correct? That's what my friend Miriam thought when she graduated from George Mason University in spring 2007. Needing to unwind after an arduous school year, she opted to work as a skin-care product specialist at a high-end department...