College Completion Is the Best Default Aversion
More than 60 percent of borrowers in default on their federal student loans never completed a degree.
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The College Graduation Rate Flaw That No One’s Talking 麻豆果冻传媒
Any discussion of federal graduation rates for colleges will immediately spark a laundry list of concerns about their validity.
For Third Time, APSCU Fails to Get Courts to Strike Down Incentive Compensation Rule
But that is not stopping the for-profit college lobbying group from continuing to call on the Ed Department to stop enforcing the rule.
When Higher Ed Doesn鈥檛 Deliver: A Case Study of Medical-Assistant Programs
Medical-assistant programs often produce graduates with few well-paying job prospects and significant amounts of student debt.
Was There a Student Loan Crisis in 2006?
What happens if you put the federal student loan portfolio of 2006 side-by-side with the portfolio today?
Who’s Not Repaying Student Loans? More People Than You Think
Even as the media touts a decline in defaults, in reality, many more people failing to make a student loan payment than 13.7 percent.
Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card for Some Colleges with High Default Rates
This fall was supposed to be when colleges were held to tougher loan default measures. But many may breathe a sigh of relief, thanks to data
Choosing College: What We Don’t Know
It’s clear that the availability of information to students about where to go to college and how to finance it is unevenly distributed.
Video: America’s Worst Colleges
“Drop-Out Factories” are one of the biggest barriers on the path to students getting affordable, quality higher education.
How Advocates and Politicians Abuse Fair-Value Accounting
The CBO endorsed fair-value accounting as the most comprehensive measure of costs for government programs for years and does to this day.