Nearly two dozen private colleges are offering an online tool that factors in need-based grants and scholarships to estimate ...

Future applicants to Penn may soon enter the admissions process with a bit more certainty in hand. In line with a U.S. Department of Education requirement, Student ...

The sticker prices of colleges can be shocking to prospective students and their families. Many schools offer financial aid in the form of grants, scholarships, loans and work-study to help alleviate ...

The Student Aid Index (SAI) is the key metric that colleges use to calculate your financial need as a relates to providing financial aid packages. The Student Aid Index (SAI) replaced the Expected ...

DANVILLE, Va. (WDBJ) - Local universities are working to help students through the uncertainties caused by the FAFSA delays. The Department of Education revamped the FAFSA this year in efforts to ...

Reyna Gobel, M.B.A. and M.J., is a financial and physical fitness journalist, author, and course instructor who’s published on reuters.com, weightwatchers.com, and theatlantic.com. Her CliffsNotes ...

Niche said it looked at the issue on Monday and suggested that Northwestern’s calculator was off. During internal testing of ...

Niche’s True Cost resource includes the price of doing laundry on campus, taking a spring break vacation and buying a laptop.

Across the country, young people are preparing this week for spooky celebrations of Halloween. But university enrollment and financial-aid administrators are more frightened by college-going students’ ...

There are many benefits to 529 college savings plans. They provide tax and financial aid advantages to families who save for college. However, the 529 plan does impact your financial aid and you ...

Students looking at college sometimes assume they can’t afford to attend the University of California. But before you jump to conclusions, take in these 10 little-known facts about the cost of a UC ...