Financial aid

Despite stronger enrollment and completion rates, students offered the experimental aid package underperformed in these three areas.

Tennessee high schoolers' historic interest in community and technical colleges comes during a nationwide decline in undergraduate enrollment among first-year students this fall.

On Monday, three higher ed regulations will take effect, raising some employee wages and expanding government's ability to oversee financial aid disbursement and underperforming academic programs.

Universities are receiving fewer FAFSA submitters and looking at smaller enrollment numbers than last year due to this year's federal aid delays. Small- to mid-sized private colleges recuperating from the pandemic have another steep hill to climb.

Some states spend as little as $36 per undergraduate student on average, a new Scholaroo analysis suggests. How does your state support its students?

Financial aid offices were already struggling with staff shortages, a lack of representation and other personnel challenges when the FAFSA fiasco struck higher ed. A new report offers strategies to retain staff.

As institutions increase their need- and merit-based scholarships to assist families from opposite ends of the economic spectrum, middle-class students are left with fewer options—and higher bills.

In July 2021, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office discovered that about 20% of the state's college applications were scams.

Another series of hiccups this financial aid cycle has deferred institutions from assisting needy families four to five months than in years past.

Whether by providing financial aid or direct admission, high school students are getting excited about these initiatives easing their entry into college.