It's no surprise that college prices have risen by a lot in the past few decades. In fact, the average yearly cost of a university has risen from $4,885 in 1985 to $23,385 in 2017. This rise is significant, even when you account for rising costs from inflation. The trend holds between pub...

Access to a college education is something that everyone should be able to enjoy. Accessibility of federal student loans is something that has helped improve that access. However, these loans can still disproportionately affect different types of people. Even with access to various types of loans, ...

Student loans can be daunting for anybody, but especially for new teachers. With an average starting salary of ​$38,617​ nationwide and the average student debt being nearly the entirety of that (​$32,731​), it can be difficult to pay back your student loans. This lower than average ...

Refinancing your student loans is a big deal and can be a hard choice to make. There's plenty of companies out there that will refinance your student loans, so how do you pick which one to go with? When deciding whether or not to refinance, you want to get as much information as possible and m...

While the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, administrations are doing everything they can to ease the burden for citizens. ​Many proposals​ have come from Congress in recent days to help people struggling from the pandemic. This ranges from a proposal to send each American $1,000 to cancel ...

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA for short, is exactly what it sounds like. It's an application that you can fill out in order to receive federal financial aid. Filling it out is beneficial: it costs you nothing and can give you access to grants or loans for you...

Refinancing student loans can be stressful and time consuming. As you do research, you realize there's a lot of companies out there, but it looks like they all provide the same service. And all these companies just replace your student loans with another loan. With all these companies offering the ...

If you're looking to refinance your loans it can be extremely confusing and frustrating. It takes a lot of time to learn what your options are, along with the benefits and drawbacks. On top of that, there's a lot of different companies out there that are able to refinance student loans, so which on...