An indispensable resource for all college-bound graduates and their families -- or college students looking for ways to ease their financial burdens -- this handbook for getting the most financial aid available offers guidance to completing the often arduous and lengthy application process. Insights from financial aid officers help answer such questions as How much does college really cost? Should we borrow money to pay for college? How can the college help us pay? and How can we make college ch...
The Student Aid Game (The William G. Bowen)
by Michael S. McPherson and Morton Schapiro
Student aid in higher education has recently become a hot-button issue. Parents trying to pay for their children's education, college administrators competing for students, and even President Bill Clinton, whose recently proposed tax breaks for college would change sharply the federal government's financial commitment to higher education, have staked a claim in its resolution. In "The Student Aid Game", Michael McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro explain how both colleges and governments are stru...
Trading Places (National report)
Peterson's (R) Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2021 provides up-to-date information on more than 1.6 million privately funded awards worth over 10 billion dollars available to college students. It contains detailed profiles of awards based on academic fields and career goals, ethnic heritage, talent, employment experience, military service, and other categories that are available from private sources such as foundations, corporations, and religious and civic organizations. Approximately 3,500 p...
A Guide to Grants for Individuals in Need (Specialist funding guides)
How to Pay for Your Degree in Journalism and Related Fields (How to Pay for Your Degree in Journalism & Related Fields)
by Gail Ann Schlachter and R Weber
The History of College Affordability in the United States from Colonial Times to the Cold War
by Thomas Adam
This book examines how tuition and student loans became an accepted part of college costs in the first half of the twentieth century. The author argues that college was largely free to nineteenth-century college students since local and religious communities, donors, and the state agreed to pay the tuition bill in the expectation that the students would serve society upon graduation. College education was essentially considered a public good. This arrangement ended after 1900. The increasing sec...
Are you worried about leaving university with enormous debt? Did you know... it's possible to defer your loan repayments? You can get free money from your university? And that students spend half their money on accommodation? To get the lowdown on managing your funds fees and finances, make sure you go to university with this book. The Guide to Student Money 2011 is packed with advice on managing all aspects of student finance, from paying your rent and choosing the right bank to applying for...
Financial Aid Set 2008 (Peterson's Financial Aid Guidance Set (2v.))
by Peterson's
Preparing, applying and sitting for a scholarship test can be gruelling and competitive process for the child and the child's parents, and the disappointment of not being awarded a scholarship can be demoralising and disappointing. The unavoidable truth is that many more students sit scholarship tests than there are scholarships available. A Parent's Guide to Scholarship Tests aims to help parents better understand scholarship tests so that they can help their child do their best when it counts.
Student Debt: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)
by William Elliott and Melinda K. Lewis
Prospects Funding Guide
The early years single funding formula (House of Commons Papers, 2009-10 131) (HC, Session 2009-10, 131)
For educational administration and leadership students taking school finance courses. A popular, user-friendly school finance text that is both current and comprehensive. The newly revised eleventh edition of this classic school finance text retains its practical tone and superior presentation while adding the most up-to-date information and material regarding education finance. Providing readers with a firm knowledge of all facets of financing education - along with a number of helpful pedago...
Financial Adventures and Mysteries for Graduates: Supporting Yourself When You Move Out!
by Mark Buzby
This is a very different workbook than the general financial literacy book. Here, you are transported on a journey from living at home, to being financially successful, living on your own, in a brave new world. You will be given down-to earth reasons for how and why you need to do things such as, live on a budget; go to ANY college you wish, not just ones you can afford; and why you need to work (paying for things now), have fun (recharging your battery for what's ahead) and go to school (improv...