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Colleges With Highest Tuition Wary of Economic Downturn
05 November 08 05:57 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

After years of ranking among the nation’s top five most expensive schools, Sarah Lawrence College — a private, liberal arts school in Bronxville, New York with a tuition price tag of more than $53,000 a year — is now the priciest school in America, beating Read More...

Filed under: College Board, college endowments, college loans, college tuition hike, economic downturn, financial aid, George Washington University, Harvard University, Karen Lawrence, New York University, NextStudent, private colleges, Sarah Lawrence College, student loans

College Employees’ Donations to Obama Far Outweigh Contributions to McCain
24 October 08 10:38 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

College employees have given eight times as much money to Barack Obama ’s presidential campaign — $12.2 million — as they have to John McCain ’s — just over $1.5 million, making it the widest gap in donations by academics in the past five presidential Read More...

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Bear Stearns Takeover Leaves Business-School Students Scrambling
14 April 08 08:13 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

BearStearns CEO, Jimmy Cayne, seems to have been the only former Stearns employee to make it out of the JPMorgan Chase buyout relatively unscathed — at least in non-CEO terms — walking away with $61.3 million in sold shares. Even though, in his own high-priced Read More...

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By the Numbers: Top 10 Undergraduate Business Schools
11 April 08 07:53 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Are you a future MBA who sees yourself building the next Trump–like empire or heading up the new 21 st -century tech giant that will finally unseat Microsoft? If you’re planning on joining the 20 percent of college students who major in business and you’re Read More...

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America’s “Best” Colleges of 2008: Strategies for College-Bound Students to Compose Their Own List
23 August 07 04:00 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Once again, U.S. News & World Report ’s latest ranking of colleges and universities received hordes of criticism and its yearly flogging from university presidents and officials who take issue with the magazine’s grading system. Even despite the effort Read More...

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