Paying For College

Newest College Savings Plan: the 3-Year Degree

Due to a still suffering economy and rising education costs a new way to control college costs is catching on. It's so simple you have to wonder why no one thought of it until now: it's the three-year college degree. Even the math is easy: one year less in school will s Read more...

Paying for College After the Market Plunge

Learn Strategies for Salvaging Your Child's 529 Plan For most families, the cost of a college education is always a challenge. The introduction of the 529 Plan was supposed to make it a little easier for parents to plan and save for this goal, but the recent market dow Read more...

10 Events Make College Kids Grow up Financially

Coming out of high school there isn't much to worry about. Most students have been gracefully given a free public education with opportunities to earn dual credit through a nearby community college, opportunities to earn AP credit, and probably making some degree of a s Read more...

Financial Aid & Student Loans Gone, Now What?

Q: How does one go about getting education loans to help offset the cost of college after all financial aid and federal student loans have been issued? KL To answer this question, Matt offered an excerpt from his new book Financial Planning for Your First Job. Read more...

Finding Free Funds for your Online College Degree

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Paying back student loan debt

Dear Scholarship Guru, Thank you for writing your article "It's Pay Back Time" in YOUNG MONEY magazine (Summer 2003, p. 26). It's definitely pay back time for me. Your article gave me a few ideas and I really need to find out more about government programs that pay o Read more...