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Bloomberg News
U.S. university endowments are losing ground as returns on investment fail to keep pace with school spending needs, according to a new report.
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Karen DeMasters
Adult children admire their parents' financial acumen, but the admiration doesn't go both ways, says a new study by Fidelity Investments.
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Bloomberg News
Delinquency rates on student loans made in the past two years stand at 15 percent in the U.S. as recent graduates struggle to find jobs, Fair Isaac Corp. said.
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Bloomberg News
As the U.S. high school graduate pool declines amid tuition increases, some universities are looking for applicants abroad.
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Bloomberg News
After a decade of resistance from universities, Congress is poised to take on college prices amid a groundswell of anger about tuition outpacing inflation.
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Bloomberg News
OSU's president lives in a 9,630-square-foot Tudor Revival mansion that was renovated for him, featuring a great hall, pool, elevator and tennis court.
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Jeb Bush, Randy Best
Taking on critics, Jeb Bush argues online education helps public universities and students deal with an unprecedented financial crisis.
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James McConville
Edward Jones and Pershing are making a big push into 529 plans and hope by simplifying access they will entice more advisors to consider them for clients.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and lawmakers are pushing for the
state's first general-obligation bond issue for higher education in
almost 25 years in a bid to staunch the nation's biggest...
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Dorothy Hinchcliff
MIT jumped to first place in a new
ranking of the world's best universities by U.S. News & World
Report. Top schools for accounting and finance were also ranked.
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Dorothy Hinchcliff
Financial advisors may have clients interested in a new Web site from a
prepaid tuition plan owned and operated by 270 private colleges and
universities.
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Jim McConville
College savings plans in Alaska, Maryland, Nevada and Utah led the nation in rankings released today by Morningstar.
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Jim McConville
What should advisors do to handle the anxiety many clients have about saving for their children's college costs? This financial advisor has some good advice.
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Jim McConville
More and more American households are struggling to help pay for their
children's college education costs, according to a recently released
study.
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Jim McConville
Although they may have the money, affluent Americans are still dragging
in devising a long-term college savings plan for their offspring,
according to a newly released study.
As the U.S. Hispanic population has grown, so has their number of doctorates, almost doubling the non-Hispanic rate from 1990 to 2010.
Soaring student loan balances undermine the promise of college education as a road to financial success.
State and
local governments are joining some private and nonprofit companies in
capitalizing on graduates' concerns in a sluggish economy about repaying
their student debt to attract new...
Interest in college savings plans is growing, but fewer advisors are selling them.
Federal financial aid programs are based on two
erroneous premises: that almost everyone needs higher education for
vocational success, and that they reduce student costs.
