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Measuring a School’s ROI with College Reality Check

on April 29, 2013 in Uncategorized

In February, the U.S. Department of Education rolled out a new College Scorecard that families can use to research schools. If you missed it, I wrote a post on the day of the unveiling: The New Federal College Scorecard. The scorecard is a good first start to help families measure a school’s return on investment, [...]

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Checking the Generosity of Your Child’s College Picks

on August 7, 2012 in Admission practices, Admissions, Applying, College Costs, Financial aid, Money

When students are developing their college lists, most of them (unless their parents are wealthy and don’t mind writing monster checks) should be paying attention to the net price of all their school picks.  Net price is what a school will cost you after scholarships and grants are deducted. An email that I received from [...]

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Tuition Hogs: The Priciest Schools in America

on June 14, 2012 in College Costs, Evaluating Schools, Money, Research, Scholarships

This week the U.S. Department of Education released its second annual lists of college tuition hogs. For the record, the federal bureaucrats don’t call them them porkers. Congress mandated that the government compile and release annual lists of the five percent of colleges and universities that charge the highest and lowest tuition. The government assembles [...]

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A College with 942 Different Prices

on March 30, 2012 in College Costs, College Savings, Money

College price tags are meaningless. If you’ve spent much time on my college blog you already appreciate that these numbers don’t mean anything, but most families don’t. About two thirds of students attending state and private schools receive scholarships or grants and the number rises to about 88% at private institutions, which have to offer [...]

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Where You Can Find the Most Expensive Colleges and Universities

on January 5, 2012 in College Costs, Evaluating Schools, Money, Research

There are a lot of expensive colleges and universities in this country, but as I’ve mentioned many times before on my college blog, the sticker price is meaningless. The only figure that matters is the college’s net price. This is the price you get after any grants (free money) that you receive from a school [...]

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Searching for the True Price of a University

on December 15, 2011 in College Costs, Financial aid, Money

There are many websites that you can research the financial aid practices of individual schools. Today I’m going to focus on an especially helpful site — the federal College Navigator. The College Navigator is not flashy, but it contains incredible tools that tap into the US Department of Education’s vast college database. The College Navigator [...]

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