Community colleges aren’t just for taking summer classes or receiving 2-year degrees. In many cases, attending a community college can be a great way to save time and money on earning your bachelor’s degree.
Our friends at Erie Community College, located in Buffalo, NY, recently announced an articulation agreement with St. John Fisher College, a private, 4-year liberal arts college near Pittsford, NY.
This means that ECC students who follow specific programs will earn automatic admission to St. John Fisher after two years and, assuming all goes well, eventually graduate and receive bachelor’s degrees from the college.
Despite the recent hype over rising college costs, the net price of a private college education has remained the same over the past decade, according to a new study from The College Board published in the New York Times.
For wealthy students who attend quality high schools where attending college is the norm, their only struggle is choosing which college to go to. But for poor students, college isn’t even in the picture. Why don’t low-income students go to college? Despite steps that have been made to increase access to higher education for low-income students, […]
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What will higher education and college students be like in the future? The Wall Street Journal offers some predictions.
Did you know you could win a scholarship just for snapping a photo of your school lunch?
To win the $4,000 “Fed Up” School Lunch Scholarship, all you need to do is text in a picture of your school lunch and answer 10 questions about school nutrition to be eligible. There are plenty of easy scholarship applications like this that you can complete in just a few minutes.
Planning on entering public service after college so you can have your student loans forgiven? It’s more complicated than you think.
Think about how often you change your mind. There’s no way to be completely certain that your plans won’t change sometime in the next four years–or in the ten years you have to commit to a public service position in order to be eligible for student loan forgiveness.
Cinderella never had to worry about student loans. And she got to live in a castle and had her own room. She might have had to work for her room and board, but her situation sounds pretty great compared to the typical college student’s cramped living quarters.
And even if Cinderella had gone to college, she had a fairy godmother to step in and wipe away her student loans.
This video from Reuters TV offers a year-by-year plan for high school students and their parents to help them prepare for college. It includes some great tips on saving for college and how to get the most financial aid possible.