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Here are 3 qualities that make graduates better job candidates

With layoffs mounting and hiring slowing in 2025, job seekers need these three characteristics to win in a tight job market, according to surveyed employers.

What’s launching FAFSA toward historic completion rates this year?

Between lightning-fast completion times and innovative state policy, FAFSA completion rates are up 12% over the Class of 2023, according to the National College Attainment Network. 

Non-degree credentials are surging. But the data is lagging

Non-degree credentials have skyrocketed in popularity over the last decade, but research can't explain how students are affording them.

Why the Simplified FAFSA may finally prove its worth this year

Following two delayed rollouts, FAFSA got off to a record start this year and may reach one of its highest completion rates.

How to help reduced financial aid offices better support students

Financial aid offices are buckling under rising demands and shrinking resources, impacting student services, according to a five-year report from NASFAA.

Private colleges continue to best their tuition discount rates

Early projections indicate that tuition discounts for first-time undergraduates during the 2024-25 academic year rose to 56.3%, according to this NACUBO survey.

See which 9 schools are the latest to make college free

Here is how college and university leaders are answering criticisms about affordability as application season kicks back into full swing.

These public colleges and MSIs are powerful economic engines

The Stanfords and Yales of higher education may help some of America's low-income students prosper, but new data from Third Way shows which institutions have the biggest impact on the nation's must vulnerable.

How Washington Monthly’s college ranking really promotes the inexpensive underdog

The D.C.-based nonprofit magazine aims to combat the cog of mainstream narratives hurting the sector's reputation—while critiquing one college ranking titan along the way.

How “course marking” can bring OER to the mainstream

Colleges and universities struggling to communicate how their OER initiative is saving students money and boosting ROI may need these four tips from the Midwestern Higher Education Compact.