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Oxford to Raise $2.5 Billion to Compete with U.S. Ivy Leagues
02 June 08 07:34 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In an effort to keep up its better-funded Ivy League competition in the United States, the University of Oxford in London has embarked on the largest fundraising campaign in European academic history, with a fundraising goal of $2.5 billion. Read More...

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Elite Korean Schools Prep Students for American Ivy Leagues
10 May 08 10:11 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

South Korea has some 103,000 students studying at American colleges and universities, outnumbered only by students from India and China, nations which have more than 20 times the population of South Korea, writes Sam Dillon of The New York Times (“ Elite Read More...

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Harvard’s Aid to Middle-Class Families a Signal for Change
03 January 08 03:03 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In December Harvard University announced it would begin offering increased financial aid to students of middle and upper-middle class families. Those families earning between $120,000 and $180,000 will only have to pay about 10 percent of their income, Read More...

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