Zac Bissonnette

All parents dream of a better life for their children and, ideally, a life so good that it doesn't involve bad choices and huge debt for their twentysomethings. So what's the secret? In my latest book, How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents (Portfolio/Penguin, April...

One of my greatest concerns about the way most students make their college financing decisions -- and one of the key reasons I wrote Debt-Free U: How I Paid For An Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, Or Mooching Off My Parents -- is this: Very, very few...

In my book Debt-Free U: How I Paid For An Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, Or Mooching Off My Parents, I show families how anyone can get a great education without loans. But the question I'm most often asked is this: "What's so bad about student loans?...

New data obtained by the Chronicle of Higher Education reveals that of student loans that entered repayment in 1995, fully 20% have since gone into default.

I wrote about the new data on DailyFinance last week and it is indeed horrifying.

But here's what most horrifying:...

PayScale's latest data showing the return on investment of attending various schools is getting a ton of press.

The Wall Street Journal has an item on the data, and so does The Chronicle of Higher Education. On the surface, it's quite interesting. Payscale looked at the...

In recent months, a number of media outlets have launched bazooka on bumblebee smack-downs of the for-profit education industry. PBS's Frontline recently aired College, Inc., and Bloomberg BusinessWeek has reported on the for-profit industry's recruitment of the homeless.

But with only about 7% of...

In a piece entitled 'The Worst Career Advice Continually Given to College Seniors', Huffington Post blogger Emily Bennington offers her counter-intuitive approach to job hunting for the recent grad. She writes:

. . . if you're still hunting for post-grad jobs at the moment, don't settle for anything too entry-level....

According to the latest data (PDF) from The College Board, two-thirds of college students are graduating with student loans -- with 25% of those who borrowed owing more than $30,500.

Tuesday on DailyFinance, I discussed the data showing just a few of the lifestyle ramifications for...