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On Sunday, August 28, the Student Credit Card Education Initiative (SCCE) will host an event for college students called Music for Change, at Sullivan Hall in New York City. Artists performing at the event will share financial literacy tips with students. Admission to the concert is free, and the SCCE is raffling off a grand…
Parents who hope to afford college for their children when the time comes around are better off researching options than simply trying to save more money for education.
In The truth about saving for college, journalist Kara Mcguire writes,
“How am I going to save enough to pay for college for my three young kids? That’s the…
A recent survey of 2,183 American adults (age 18 and over) was conducted by Harris Interactive to measure perceptions of college value. The adults surveyed were not necessarily college students or graduates, and the results indicate that adults have mixed opinions about higher education.
Just over half of adults (52%) surveyed hold a very positive or…
MyDormFood.com is a new startup company that sends packages filled with food and snacks to college students who can order them online. According to a recent Q & A session published in The Tennessean, students and/or parents can go to the website to “get a week’s or month’s supply of snack foods, packaged meals and…
Although there is nothing that can guarantee what the starting income will be after a student graduates from college, there is a bit of a link between a college’s location and the top 10 starting salaries of college graduates, according to the 2011-2012 Payscale College Salary Report.
Of the top 10 colleges with the highest starting…
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