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3-2 Engineering Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges
Tweet Share on Facebook August 31, 2010 Comment (5)My family lives in California where roughly 84 percent of the state's college-bound students enroll in public colleges and universities within their borders.
[See U.S. News's list of top public schools.]
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Answering Financial Aid Questions
Tweet Share on Facebook August 24, 2010 Comment (2)Will I be penalized for applying for financial aid? Who gets financial aid? And how much can I expect?
These are the sort of financial questions that teenagers and their parents ask all the time. Last week, Angel B. Perez, Pitzer College's admission director, who is known for his candor, tried to answer some of these questions at a meeting of West Coast college planners.
[Read about the financial aid formula.]
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Look Beyond the Top-Ranked Schools
Tweet Share on Facebook August 17, 2010 Comment (4)The schools that attract the most attention on the day that U.S.News & World Report unveils its much-anticipated rankings are the ones that command the top spots.
[See the new Best Colleges 2011 rankings.]
Today, however, I'd like to focus on the schools that never get to bask in the bright lights of the college rankings hoopla. I'm talking about the colleges and universities that are at or near the bottom of the rankings.
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3 Negatives About How Colleges Are Behaving
Tweet Share on Facebook August 10, 2010 Comment (4)One of the hazards of being a journalist is that it makes you cynical.
Having covered issues in the higher-ed world for a few years now, I too have become cynical about the way the higher-education world operates.
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7 Ways to Cut College Costs
Tweet Share on Facebook August 3, 2010 Comment (6)Does anybody else out there think it's obscene that dozens of schools now charge more than $50,000 a year?
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