A new report released by U.S. PIRG showed over the last decade, the price of college textbooks has soared. Since 2006, the cost of a college textbook increased by 73% – over four times the rate of inflation. Today, individual textbooks often cost over $200, sometimes as high as $400. For the first time they Read More

By Martin Kurzweil, Rayane Alamuddin & Daniel Rossman, Ithaka S+R In fall 2015, Ithaka S+R invited a select group of 110 higher education administrators and experts to take part in semi-annual surveys on issues of national importance in higher education. In Higher Ed Insights: Results of the Fall 2015 Survey we report the findings from Read More

The SAT and ACT serve as both gateways and gatekeepers for students seeking college admissions. As such, students the country over do their best to prepare for them by poring over content and practice exams, seeking to learn strategies and techniques in efforts to raise their scores. And rightly so: though the College Board and Read More

For five decades, researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles have surveyed the nation’s incoming freshmen to learn more about their backgrounds, views, and expectations. Use this interactive graphic (linked here – Backgrounds and Beliefs of College Freshmen)to see how their attitudes and self-images have changed since the 1960s, as measured by UCLA’s Read More

An article in the Hechinger Report recently reported that when colleges cut their tuition rates it typically gets lots of press, but often students save far less than expected. They used Converse College as an example. It was reported they were cutting tuition by 43 percent. The private college in Spartanburg, South Carolina, cut its Read More

You can help your students rise to the top of the candidate list by doing the following College enrollment is up across the US, which means many schools have more applicants than they can accommodate. To get the attention of college admissions officers, your students need to distinguish themselves from other candidates. Below are a Read More

More US Students are getting their diplomas than ever, but fewer are enrolling in college. Where are they going? This question was posed in an article in The Atlantic. During the 2013-2014 school year, more than 82 percent of students got their high school diploma. This was up from 81 percent the year before. But Read More

US News & World Report published an informative article about how student loan debt can impact getting a mortgage. It’s common knowledge that students today are graduating with more debt than ever. Paying that debt off can take years and in many cases more than a decade. Students typically will rent for several years until Read More