Last month we wrote about the Get Schooled College Affordability Challenge, a national competition organized by MTV, the College Board, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to re-imagine and simplify the college financial-aid process by using digital tools. The submissions were winnowed...

Liberal-arts degrees get a bum rap. After all, what in the world are you going to do with that philosophy or American history degree? And why spend $30,000 and upwards annually to learn about it? Well, actually, it's because a liberal-arts degree is a versatile ticket to a wide range of jobs, and...

As college graduation nears, the Internet is probably the first place you're going to look for work, search for online job postings and blast your resume into cyberspace. Big mistake. In this job market, when you're competing with dozens, even hundreds, of people, you have to do something different...

Applying for financial aid is a byzantine process that frustrates even the smartest whiz kid. Now there's a contest geared toward finding new ways toward simplifying the process -- and you get to vote on the idea you think is best. The Get Schooled College Affordability Challenge is a national...

Wow, who would have thought that a state school would have some of the highest-priced dorm rooms in the nation? But yes, the University of California at Berkeley (right) has the second most-expensive dorm rent, at $15,307 per year. The award for the highest-priced dorm goes to Eugene Lang College,...

Alex Withrow graduated in 2009 with a communications degree from the University of Missouri, intending to have a glamorous, jet-setting career in public relations. But after doing an internship in the field, she wasn't sure if that was the route she really wanted to take. By chance, she heard...

Tuition is climbing, but the stock market is risky and safe investments like certificates of deposit are paying 1% or less. So what's a good way to save money for college? One option to consider is signing up for rebate programs that build up hundreds, or thousands, of extra dollars every year...

We've all been told that a requirement of success now is a four-year college degree, at the very minimum. But Peter Thiel disagrees. That idea, says the PayPal co-founder, is so 20th century, that the self-made billionaire plans to award cash grants of $100,000 to college students -- if they'll...

Elizabeth Crowley recently graduated with a master's degree from Villanova University. Her dream job is to be a college teacher. But for the past two years, her job has been as a "crew member" at the supermarket chain Trader Joe's. Crowley, 27, bags groceries and walks the aisles, asking customers...

There are many polls published each year that rank the companies college students want to work for most. For the most part, they have similar results: everyone wants to work for Google, followed by major accounting and consulting firms, with Wall Street banking firms sliding down the list.