Costs Articles

Should you rent your textbooks rather than buy?  The Wall Street Journal, and others, tell us why or why not. 

Come August 2011, some of the guess work will be eliminated from the cost estimate part of this process. One of the provisions of the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 requires that all colleges and universities which receive Title IV federal funds offer a net price calculator on their website within the next two years. The purpose of these college specific calculators is to provide a closer approximation of what the true “net” cost of a particular college will be for an individual student, given the school's own financial aid practices and history.