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Miscalculation Leaves South Carolina $25M Short for State Scholarships

The South Carolina Commission on Higher Education underestimated by roughly $25 million how much money it needs to provide state...
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Study: More Students Plan to Attend College, Not All Ready to Finance It

More students are planning to pursue college, as 72 percent of high school seniors intend to pursue an associate or...
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Students Financial Aid

Designing Successful Free College Programs

New research from the Brookings Institute highlights better and worse ways to craft a free college program. Here’s how researchers think lawmakers can get it right.

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Students Financial Aid

Confusing College Pricing Sows Mistrust in Higher Ed

New survey suggests that difficulty calculating the real cost of college weakens institutional trust among students and their families.

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The Trust Problem in College Pricing Is Real

Here’s how we fix it.

By Luisa Havens Gerardo et al.

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Pitt to Offer Some Students Free Tuition at Branch Campuses

The University of Pittsburgh announced it will offer free tuition at its four branch campuses to Pennsylvanians whose household incomes...
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Crimes Unit Reviewing Report That N.C. A&T Funded Officials’ Relatives

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University “improperly directed more than $5 million” to students as financial aid, including over...
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Students Financial Aid

Merit Aid Outpacing Need-Based Aid Among All Institutions

Reports find merit aid is a common enrollment strategy to attract wealthy students, with high-income students receiving slightly more financial aid than their low-income peers on average.