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More Than Tuition: Improving Financial Literacy
After COA is set, low and moderate income students have a tough decision to make, how much debt can they realistically take on?
More Than Tuition: How to Improve Cost of Attendance
The 1986 Higher Education Act restricted the Department of Education's involvement in Cost of Attendance calculations, but at what cost?
More Than Tuition: Trends in Cost Estimates Over Time
There has been huge discrepencies in how COA is calculated for colleges in the same geographical regions that have some angry.
More Than Tuition: High Uncertainty and Complicated Incentives
More Than Tuition: Today’s Students and Institutional Incentives for Setting Yearly Budgets
Even as the media focus is on elite private colleges, 45 percent of students live in households with less than $30,000 a year.
A Legislative History: Why is Cost of Attendance so Complicated?
Congress first defined COA more than four decades ago, in 1972, but changes in the student population since has left lawmakers scrambling.
More Than Tuition: What is Cost of Attendance?
Cost of Attendance is out pacing inflation every year and student debt is climbing above $1.2 trillion.
College Decisions Survey Part V: Searching for the Right College
This is the final brief in a five part series analyzing what students know about college financing.
One Small Step for FAFSA, One Giant Leap for Students
The Obama administration made an announcement that could fundamentally change the way students apply for federal financial aid.
The Next Generation of Student Debt
College students now expect to take on more student loan debt than they think is reasonable. Rachel Fishman offers a master class on why stu
College Decisions Survey Part IV: Understanding Student Loan Debt
As part of the College Decision Survey, prospective and recently-enrolled college students’ were asked about student loans.
