Student Loan Blog

For some students, four years of a college education is simply too much to afford. But by accelerating their college career to reduce the amount of time they spend in the classroom, these student are able to reduce their overall cost of college. How do they do it? For many students, the three-year college plan starts in high school. High ...

New legislation recently signed by Delaware governor Ruth Ann Minner intends to ease the transition of school-age children whose military parents transfer from assignment to assignment over the course of their careers, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Defense (“Military Child Education Agreement Now in Effect,” July 11, ...

Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., sent a letter Monday to the American Association of Community Colleges, urging its members to enroll in the government’s Direct Loan Program in order to ensure community college students have access to student loans for the 2008–09 academic year.Kennedy, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, ...

Cornell University’s medical school in Qatar graduated its inaugural class on May 8, marking the first time a U.S.-based medical school has awarded degrees outside the United States.The 15 graduates of the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar will participate in a second commencement ceremony later this month in New York’s Carnegie Hall, along ...

In the last six months alone, since legislators eliminated over $21 billion in subsidies to student loan lenders in the Federal Family Education Loan Program, at least 44 FFELP lenders have stopped originating federal student loans.This exodus of lenders from the federal student loan program, combined with the current credit and liquidity crunch ...

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  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, or no more than $18,000 of the $45,600 traditionally charged for tuition, Jonathan D. ...

Chances are you have overdue library books laying around in your dorm room or apartment. Maybe the book you checked out six months ago has become a part of your décor—a handy paperweight on your desk or an unconventional coaster on your coffee table.   You’ve thought to yourself, no biggie, right? Not quite. You might want to dust ...