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10 States With the Most Student Loan Debt Per Graduate

InvestingAnswers | Posted 05.14.2012

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InvestingAnswers

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.

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Quality Higher Education Doesn't Need to Cost So Much

Dr. Robert Mendenhall | Posted 05.02.2012

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Dr. Robert Mendenhall

Technology offers us many opportunities to improve our output by customizing learning to individual needs, increasing productivity, expanding access, and most importantly, improving quality and affordability.

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Will Student Loan Default Cause the Next Recession?

Pamela Yellen | Posted 04.27.2012

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Pamela Yellen

With the costs of higher education high and rising, it's important for families to start planning for college early. Yet most people don't know the pitfalls to traditional college savings plans.

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Fee Fighters

The Cavalier Daily | Posted 04.16.2012

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The Cavalier Daily

In California, students may be heard by administrators, but the administrators go ignored by politicians, and until universities can influence state appropriations, student self-governance means nothing.

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Tuition Increase in Florida Universities' STEM Fields: Justified or Unfair?

Emily Thorp | Posted 04.04.2012

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Emily Thorp

Florida colleges may raise tuition for students entering STEM fields. This is absurd because America will always need individuals with these skills, especially females, given the current gender disparity.

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Growing Tomorrow's Leaders, One Land Title at a Time

Tim Hanstad | Posted 02.08.2012

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Tim Hanstad

It should be simple. A country ensures free education for all children, and everyone benefits. But we all know it's not that easy.

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Counting the Costs of College

Arva Rice | Posted 01.23.2012

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Arva Rice

The idea and notion of sacrificing for college with the promise of better employment options is being questioned. But in this economy -- despite the escalating costs -- college is a necessity.

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Occupying Our Education

Annie Shattuck | Posted 01.22.2012

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Annie Shattuck

Our public university system is being systematically privatized, making it harder and harder for students from working class families to access higher education.

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Let's Storm The Ivory Towers!

Marcus Baram | Posted 01.09.2012

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Marcus Baram

In other countries, such as England and France, students have taken to the streets by the thousands to protest much smaller tuition increases. Where is that spirit here in America?

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College Costs Drop for Higher-Earning Households

Wall Street Journal | Sara Murray | Posted 10.25.2011

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By Sara Murray, The Wall Street Journal Middle- and upper-class families opted for cheaper schools and more financial aid to send their children to...

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