College Tuition

By Jeffrey Simons
Today’s post is the last in a series of 10 tips on how to save money on college.
Today’s tip is . . .
Take Two Years of Courses at StraighterLine
We hope you’ve been enjoying our series on how to cut the cost of college. For our last post, we have an out of the [...]

By Beth Dumbauld
Today’s post is the ninth in a series of short tips on how to save money on college.
Today’s tip is . . .
Pay for Learning Outcomes: Competency-Based Education Emphasizes Skill over Time 
Do you want to save money on college and graduate sooner? Here’s a powerfully simple strategy for you. Utilize competency-based education.
A college [...]

By Jeffrey Simons
Today’s post is the eighth in a series of short tips on how to save money on college.
Today’s tip is . . .
Get a Job and Let Your Employer Pay for Your College Courses
Do you want to save money on college and graduate sooner? Here’s a powerfully simple strategy for you.  Get a [...]

By Beth Dumbaud
Today’s post is the seventh  in a series of short tips on how to save money on college.
Today’s tip is . . .
Brown Bag Your Education
Do you want to save money on college and graduate sooner? Here’s a powerfully simple strategy for you: Brown bag your education. 
If you are into saving money, you [...]

By Jeffrey Simons
Today’s post is the six in a series of short tips on how to save money on college.
Today’s tip is . . .
Get an Entire Year of College for only $760
Do you want to save money on college and graduate sooner? Here’s a powerfully simple strategy for you.  Get an entire year of [...]

Today’s post is the third in a series of short tips on how to save money on college.
Today’s tip is . . .
Use CLEP Exams to Place out of Courses
Do you want to save money on college and graduate sooner? Here’s a powerfully simple strategy for you.  Use CLEP exams to place out of courses.
What [...]

Today’s post is the third in a series of short tips on how to save money on college.
Today’s tip is . . .
Place Out of Courses and Move Up to the Next Level
Do you want to save money on college and graduate sooner? Here’s a powerfully simple strategy for you. Place out of courses and [...]

Today’s post is the second in a series of short tips on how to save money on college. Today’s tip is . . .
Go to a Three-Year College
Do you want to save money on college and graduate sooner? Here’s a powerfully simple strategy for you. Go to a three-year college!
What You Need to Know about [...]

As you put the finishing touches on your tax return, you’re probably wondering which of your educational expenditures are tax-deductible.  Can you deduct the cost of your new laptop, for example? And what about your textbooks?
We scoured the Internet looking for the best source of quick answers to those questions. The best we found was [...]

If you need financial assistance for college – and who doesn’t? – you need to understand a lot of terms that apply to financial aid.
If a college admissions officer asks you, “Have you filed the FAFSA,” you need to know what that is. (See below for a definition.) Ditto, if a lender says to you [...]

“Buying” a year of college is a lot like buying a car . . .

A car always costs more than sticker price. You get stuck with interest payments on a loan, with options that come out of nowhere, with an extended warrantee, and lots more.  A car you thought you could buy for $25,000 suddenly [...]

Did you ever splat on a course? I sure did . . .

I splatted in both Algebra I and Algebra II. By the time I was three lesson units into each of them, I was far behind because I hadn’t grasped what was happening in the earlier weeks of class. I never caught up, and [...]

ABOVE – See president Obama sworn in as president of the United States in 2009
As you know by now, Barack Obama will be inaugurated for his second four-year term as U.S. president on Monday, January 21st. Nearly a million people are expected to visit our nation’s capital to see it happen.
Over the next four years [...]

I don’t know if you’ve noticed it too, but I have found that when I get organized about my money, I have more of it.
It’s funny how it works. Since I started using online banking to track activity in my checking account, for example, I have experienced these benefits . . .

Because I can see [...]

“The Student Debt Crisis,” a recent post from the Center for American Progress, points out that the cost of college has increased far faster than the cost of just about anything else you can name. To quote from the article . . .
“In the past three decades, the cost of attaining a college degree has [...]