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Net Price Calculators May Be Too Simple to Use
Tweet Share on Facebook October 18, 2011 Comment (10)Starting Oct. 29, the nation's colleges and universities must have a net price calculator installed on their websites.
These calculators, which were mandated by Congress, should provide much-needed transparency in college pricing. While college tuition keeps climbing, about two thirds of students receive grants and scholarships that cut these costs. Knowing that price tags are meaningless, however, doesn't help a family that's trying to figure out what they can afford before they apply to schools.
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Digital Badges Could Significantly Impact Higher Education
Tweet Share on Facebook October 4, 2011 CommentThe college degree is the only game in town. At least that's the way it's been for a very long time.
Most Americans believe they need a college degree to succeed professionally and the statistics certainly bear this out.
College graduates earn considerably more during their careers. Among Americans ages 25 to 32, for instance, women and men with college degrees earned 79 percent and 74 percent more respectively than high school graduates, according to the College Board. What's more, the unemployment rates of college graduates has been consistently about half that of high school graduates.
