GetEducated.com says the cheapest online master's degrees in education and library science are from public colleges and universities. The distance learning group researches regionally accredited online programs to find best buys.

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Receiving financial aid appears to have a significant positive impact on the educational performance of college students from low-income families, but many higher-education institutions are bending to pressure to give aid to other students who do not necessarily need it, accordin …

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President Mark G. Yudof announces plans to raise $1 billion in private funds over the next four years and to expand an existing aid program to more middle-income families.

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Under the House bill, the grants would rise with the consumer price index, plus 1 percentage point, starting in 2011. The estimated maximum award in 2019 would be $6,900.

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Debate about college costs and the role of student aid.

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As a result, the 529 prepaid funds — not to be confused with 529 college savings plans that do not promise a specific return — grew into financial powerhouses, even though 7 of the 18 funds have closed to new investments over the years.

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"In a poor state like Mississippi we just have a lot of people who can't afford to go to school full-time," said Rep. Cecil Brown, D-Jackson. "People have to work and it takes longer to graduate....Life happens in that time period.

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PROVIDENCE — Higher education officials say they plan to avoid imposing midyear surcharges or tuition increases on students to make up for recent state cuts to Rhode Island's three public colleges, and instead will save money by leaving open scores of positions and trimming s …

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The draft policy calls for the state to pay 55 percent of the cost to educate undergraduates and the universities would pay 45 percent.

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This week, the fifth annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) — a movement by former President Bill Clinton to bring together businesses, world leaders and a variety of NGO's — is taking place in New York City.

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Students in the University of California system next year will probably pay 44% more -- $10,300 -- in basic student fees than they did in 2008. The fee increase comes in the face of declining and unreliable financial support from the state of California.

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Michigan's qualifying high school grads can get free college tuition through a proposed plan that draws on the state's lotteries, casinos and donations, state Rep. Fred Durhal Jr. said today.

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Here's a telling stat for you: A little under a thousand incoming freshman confirmed that they would be attending Delaware State this fall. Only 825 showed up.

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The Treasury Department released its much-anticipated report on Section 529 Savings Plans today.

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The authors write that price, in this case, is an indicator of quality. Maybe. Alternatively, education at a pricey institution could be a Veblen good, such that an increase in tuition makes the school more desirable as a status symbol.

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In recent years, Americans have grown accustomed to living amid the smoking wreckage of various once-proud industries—automakers bankrupt, brand-name Wall Street banks in ruins, newspapers dying by the dozen.

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The University of Texas at Austin is ending participation in the National Merit Scholarship Program, the largest single campus departure in years from the program, which enjoys considerable prestige in some circles but is controversial in others.

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Colleges are referred to as "cookie monsters" who "seek out all the resources that they can get their hands on and then devour them" (the higher education scholar Ronald G.

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With deficit worries gripping Washington, lawmakers including House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller (D-Calif.) and Rep. Thomas Petri (R-Wis.) have proposed cutting taxpayer subsidies to private institutions that issue student loans.

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When colleges defend the use of financial aid based on academic merit, they almost always make the case that it's not an either/or question with regard to students from low-income families.

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U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, today introduced legislation that will make college dramatically more affordable by investing billions of dollars in additional student aid – and at no new cost to taxpayers.

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I'm just about to head off to a commencement here at U Cal Berkeley. The news that keeps banging around in my head is that the state has just announced a whopping 9 percent increase in fees for next academic year, the third fee increase in three years.

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It's no secret that higher education is becoming too expensive for many middle-class families to bear. Today's New York Post breaks down the cost of one year at New York University. The total? A shocking $54,441!

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But in the swift kick in the American gut that is the current recession, higher education is the latest sector of society that has been hit hard by hard times.

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In 2008, a state commission work group charged with suggesting ways to cut government spending floated a proposal to eliminate U-M's $326 million state appropriations. But even the head of the work group acknowledged the idea was unlikely, and it didn't gain traction in Lansing.

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