Scholarships and Fellowships for Psychology Programs
The discipline of psychology offers many career choices. Most specializations involving research or treatment require an graduate degree, sometimes more than one. [...]
Business Degree Scholarship and Fellowship Guide
Winning a scholarship towards your business degree may not be as hard as it seems. Finding the right one for you is an entirely different matter. [...]
Renewed Push on Pell Grant Program
College leaders grew understandably nervous when President Obama said last week that he would freeze domestic discretionary spending for the rest of his administration; programs dear to them, like student aid and scientific research, fall into that broad category, and his State of the Union vow to shield education programs provided too-little reassurance. [...]
Pre-Deadline Outages for College Board’s Financial Aid System
The College Board’s CSS Financial Aid PROFILE, an online aid application used by many colleges and universities, experienced periods of severe slowdowns and some “intermittent outages” on Sunday, according to a board spokeswoman. [...]
Deal Unlikely on Debt-to-Income Ratio
Negotiators involved in this week’s final round of negotiated rule making on revisions to the U.S. Department of Education’s regulations on the disbursal of federal financial aid funds said late Thursday they wouldn’t be putting much more effort in trying to reach agreement on the most contentious proposal being debated. [...]
Fantastic Scholarship Awards Available over the next Three Weeks!
This is an important time of the year when everyone thinking about college in the fall… begins to look for scholarships. There are more than two dozen award deadlines in just the next three weeks. [...]
Who’s Doing What on the Student Loan Front?
The vast majority of colleges have begun to prepare themselves for what the Obama administration considers a likely transition of all student lending to the federal direct student loan program — but a solid majority of lending is still being made through the competing lender-based guaranteed loan program, according to an analysis of federal data by Student Lending Analytics. [...]
Student Loan Demand Rises as Availability Decreases
Despite more cost-conscious students, demand for student loans has continued to increase over the last two years according to a new analysis by Reuters and the credit bureau Equifax. [...]
Survey Shows Freshmen More Worried About Money, College Costs
Everyone knows institutions of higher education have been impacted by the economic downturn. Students have been affected too, in the worst case scenarios paying more for their college degrees or facing financial aid shortages. [...]
Employers Expect More from New Hires and Their Schools
A new survey of employers shows that broader may be better when it comes to higher learning. Despite students’ increasing interest in a college education that prepares them for a specific career, employers and the nature of the job market both appear to be demanding students with a wide knowledge base and flexible skills. [...]