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Can Internet Competition Open Up the Textbook Market?

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The market for college textbooks has never worked well. In the age before the Internet, new books tended to be sold as a monopoly in the college bookstore. After the first semester of a new textbook, a used book market emerges that competes with new books sold at the bookstore. Used books remain as a […]

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Who’s to Blame for College Financial Aid Shortfalls?

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The Education Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group, recently released a report titled “Opportunity Adrift” that criticizes the financial aid practices of public universities. The report used data from 2003 to 2007. The report accuses public research universities of increasing the amount of aid to students whose parents make at least $115,000 a year by 28 […]

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Which College Degrees Have the Best Job Opportunities?

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There were 1,524,092 BA degree graduates for the year ending June 2007 — the last year of complete data. Graduates with a BA degree show a nearly unbroken increase since the 1960’s. A total of 22.5 million people received BA degrees in the United States between 1990 and the year ending June 2007. During the […]

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To Save at College, Leverage Your Flagship University

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Every fall, U.S. News and World Report publishes its annual Best Colleges list, which includes current tuition and fees. This and other college guides are excellent sources of tuition information, but generally this is only the sticker price. When it comes to tuition, the schools to watch are the state’s flagship public universities. In Virginia, […]

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Paying for College Might Be Getting Easier

Financing a college education may be getting easier. It’s much needed, as the benefits of Federal Student Aid, especially the Federal Student Loan program, reached new lows by 2007. The amount of Pell grants to need-based students was frozen at $4,050 from 2003-2007, even though there were no controls on tuition. Congress increased that to […]

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