Despite everything that has happened in the economy, college still holds a strong attraction for most of today's young adults. There could be many possible reasons for this continued interest in education.

The February jobs report released Friday showed the unemployment rate at 7.7 percent, its lowest level in four years. Job gains were better than expec...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah lawmakers are considering a measure that would allow state universities to give high-performing out-of-state students in-state ...

The hyper-inflation of tuition is well documented. By any measure, the cost of college attendance has increased dramatically. Higher education tends to be debt financed. The student loan bubble may well be like the subprime mortgage bubble -- only worse.

NEW YORK -- After serving in the military, Andrew Sammons returned to home to the house where he lived with his wife in North Carolina and decided to ...

The University of Texas at Austin will test next year whether it can increase its four-year graduation rate and reduce student loan debt by forgiving ...

-- It's what passes for good news on college costs these days: Private colleges and universities increased tuition 3.9 percent this fall, a rate well...

Why is it acceptable for colleges to side step what their total cost will be? If a car dealership tried to sell a car that way they would be in trouble for unfair business practices.

More students are going to college than ever before, but states have continued to cut back on funding for public colleges, and that's leading to some ...

Another college is doing the unthinkable (or at least the unlikely): cutting tuition. Regent University, a private, nonprofit school in Virginia, s...

Everyone agrees that law school tuition is too high. And everyone agrees that something must be done. But to what degree is tuition too high? And just what are law schools supposed to do about it?

There is neither a single nor a simple reason for the exploding cost of college. Quality higher education has always been relatively expensive. In fact, it is often more costly to deliver than what is paid by tuition.

Students should be more conscious of the obligations they are about to take on, and if we are not comfortable with what our institutions are offering and at what cost, it is on us to make that change.

MONTREAL — Student groups in Quebec have filed a legal motion against a provincial law aimed at ending more than three months of protests over p...

You think your parents are spending a lot on your college education? It's nothing compared to one Houston dad who will shell out about $1.5 millio...

Collectively, college graduates now owe more than $1 trillion in student loans. Here are the top 10 states that held the most student loan debt per graduate at the end of the 2010 school year.