So you or someone you love is heading off to college. Congratulations! Now it’s time to figure out how to pay for it. Higher education is valuable but pricey — for students attending public, four-year ...

Janet Berry-Johnson is a contributor at Buy Side and expert on accounting, taxes, student loans and small business accounting. For the 2023-24 academic year, in-state undergraduate students at public ...

As families gear up for students to start a new school year, many are considering how to pay for college tuition. Almost half of families will borrow money to cover a member's college tuition, and a ...

New legislation is set to reshape how students and families pay for their college education if they are looking for help from ...

Getting into college can be hard. But figuring out how to finance college so that neither parent nor child are left financially hard up? It’s a new, highly annoying level of hard — at least if you ...

The Trump administration’s new restrictions on the Parent Plus loan program could significantly impact families who rely on it to fund their children’s education. Starting in 2026, parents will only ...

Editor’s note: This is the final article in a six-part series focused on paying for education using smart financial and estate planning. See below for links to the other articles, about direct tuition ...

As the cost of college continues to rise, it’s not unusual for parents to discover that student loans, financial aid and savings won’t cover all their child’s expenses. Parent PLUS loans provide a way ...

Students are trapped in a matrix of assumptions that lead them to take out loans for college that they won’t be able to pay back, a lawyer–turned–student loan researcher argues in a new book. Dave ...

While school advocates touted some successes with Michigan's higher education budget for 2025-26, there were still some ...

As if finding a suitable, affordable college isn’t hard enough, students must also find one that isn’t likely to close on them, experts say. Every week, on average, a college or university closes, ...