Recent college grads owe more than $26,000 on average, and more than a third of them are working in jobs that don't require a college degree.
The cost of earning a college degree can be a really bad investment. Some of you may be wise to consider the alternatives.
Despite what you may have heard, the truly desperate can have their student loan debt forgiven in bankruptcy court. But it's not easy.
This is probably your first opportunity to manage your day-to-day finances without parental oversight. Don't mess it up.
If you plan to foot the bill for your child's higher education, you may be shortchanging your child and yourself.
After 8 years of postgraduate education, the author was surprised to find herself $100,000 in the hole.
The average in-state sticker price for a public university is about $8,000 a year. Yet the typical student pays less than a third that amount. Here's how it's done.
Should colleges stand up and say, 'Enough is enough -- we can't, in good conscience, send these kids out into the world with tens of thousands of dollars in debt'?
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