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Gallardo, Juan E. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
With the costs of higher education increasing, the need to search for alternative ways to fund these expenses has also increased. While grants, scholarships, personal savings, and financial assistance from parents, may be effective for some, this is not the case for all students as some are inclined to use student loans to fund their higher…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Debt (Financial), Paying for College, Financial Problems
Wisconsin Policy Forum, 2023
After trailing the national average for five years, funding per student at public colleges and universities in Wisconsin overtook it in 2021. State and local tax and tuition funding per student dropped nationally after adjusting for inflation and rose in Wisconsin, though it remains lower for four-year campuses in Wisconsin. The state's colleges…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Public Colleges, Universities, College Enrollment
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Neilsen, Steve – About Campus, 2023
For students with a significant amount of student loan debt, the excitement of graduating from college can be overshadowed by feelings of anxiety and fear. Debt perception is about more than the cost of a college degree, the amount of financial aid received, or the value families place on education. In this article, the author tells a story about…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Debt (Financial), Paying for College, Financial Literacy
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Fox, Anna; Hedayet, Mujtaba; Mansour, Koboul E.; Kommers, Suzan; Wells, Ryan – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
Students with disabilities are attending college at increasingly higher rates, yet little is known about the costs they experience compared to their peers. In this study we found that undergraduates with disabilities at four-year institutions in the United States experience higher financial, social, and emotional costs, resulting in disparate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Students with Disabilities, Student Costs, Paying for College
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Annie Everett; Kelly Rosinger; Dominique J. Baker; Hyung-Jung Kim; Robert Kelchen; Justin C. Ortagus – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Administrative burden, or the frictions individuals experience in accessing public programs, has implications for whether and which eligible individuals receive aid. While prior research documents barriers to accessing federal financial aid, less is known about the extent to which state aid programs impose administrative burden, how administrative…
Descriptors: Financial Aid Applicants, Tuition, Federal Programs, Technical Education
Blanca Loera Martinez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Financial literacy is an area of knowledge with which many Americans struggle. For students transitioning from a free public K-12 system to a pay-to-attend system in higher education, understanding the actual cost of college becomes vital so they can persist to graduation. This study focused on low-income, campus-housed first-year students in the…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Money Management, Low Income Students, College Freshmen
Karly B. Ball – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A four-year college degree is associated with numerous positive outcomes for students, from increased average earning potential to opportunities for personal development. Yet, for individuals with disabilities, large medical bills and other disability-related expenses may make affording college especially difficult. This study used a convergent…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, College Students, Paying for College, Student Financial Aid
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Al-Labadi, Luai; Hur, Jinyoung; Lim, Kyuson; Srivastava, Nitya – Higher Education Studies, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic poses financial challenges for students worldwide, especially for those in higher education where free and universal access is not guaranteed. Students in developed economies, a long-neglected group for pandemic studies, are not exceptions. The motivation of this study is to examine subjective financial well-being of…
Descriptors: Financial Literacy, Well Being, Undergraduate Students, COVID-19
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Bettinger, Eric; Gurantz, Oded; Lee, Monica; Long, Bridget Terry – Research in Higher Education, 2023
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is the primary gatekeeper to secure financial aid for college. The federal government instituted two changes to the process in 2017, commonly known as "prior-prior year" FAFSA: (1) an earlier start date that lengthens the filing period and (2) the ability to use completed taxes from…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Paying for College, Financial Aid Applicants, Educational Change
Maag, Taylor – Progressive Policy Institute, 2023
Fewer young adults believe college is important, only about one-third of the American public has confidence in higher education. A recent study from Pew Research Center revealed that Americans are increasingly concerned about affordability, access, and the overall payoff of a college degree. Meanwhile, technological advances and AI have begun to…
Descriptors: College Students, Paying for College, Federal Aid, Grants
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David C. Ribar; Ross Rubenstein – Education Finance and Policy, 2023
Georgia offers two merit-based scholarships to in-state college students: HOPE Scholarships, which provide partial tuition support, and Zell Miller Scholarships, which provide full tuition support but with stricter eligibility and retention conditions. Studies have examined retention of these scholarships but not other dynamics, including gaining…
Descriptors: Universities, Merit Scholarships, Tuition, Paying for College
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Luis Antonio Andrade Rosas; Perla Lomelí – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2023
When workers hear about a possible promotion, it is common for them to get training, and they can do so through education. However, there is the possibility that the worker needs to receive a salary according to the knowledge acquired in such training. In this study, considering a population of employed workers with incomplete secondary school, we…
Descriptors: Costs, Student Costs, Paying for College, Cost Effectiveness
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Chiang, Tom, Jr. – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2022
Obtaining a college degree is positively correlated with gains in socioeconomic mobility. However, college is expensive. Given the importance of college in increasing social mobility, lawmakers have proposed eliminating student debt. Joe Biden, for example, has incorporated eliminating student debt into his presidential campaign promise. While…
Descriptors: College Programs, Student Loan Programs, Loan Repayment, Debt (Financial)
Usamah Wasif – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Greater educational attainment is associated with an increase in expected income, lowering of internal discount rates, and improved financial and health literacy. Income transfers have the potential to positively impact educational attainment by either reducing the direct cost of college attendance or by an inducing an income effect that nudges…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, College Students, Enrollment, Costs
Robert L. Tucker – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this quantitative correlational-predictive study was to determine to what extent, if any, instructional costs and student services costs together and separately predict retention rates in the state of Texas in private postsecondary institutions. Based on Tinto's theory of institutional departure, the predictor variables were…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Paying for College, Tuition, Student Costs
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