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Registered Rep.
June 18, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
How College Rankings Influence Scholarship Awards For your affluent clients, it's the schools that don't possess the marquee names that will be eager to award their children scholarships. The author's book, The College Solution: A Guide to Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price explains more.   |
Registered Rep.
January 23, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Five Secrets Colleges Are Keeping From You While universities may lure students with fancy brochures, luxury housing and scenic architecture, the reality is that colleges are high-stakes businesses preoccupied with enhancing their own prestige. |
BusinessWeek
March 19, 2007
Louis Lavelle |
What's Behind the Grade The methodology underlying undergraduate business program rankings. |
Registered Rep.
February 23, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Helping Parents Deal with College Stress The number of parents who express concern about getting their kids into college is almost as many as those who worry about paying the tab. |
Salon.com
December 15, 2000
Maura Kelly |
Stop the madness Admissions officers at top-rated colleges prescribe time out for burnout... |
Registered Rep.
August 26, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
School's (Not) Out Parents often assume that their children are going to finish their degrees in four years. Most of the time, it doesn't happen. |
Registered Rep.
December 17, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College Admissions Fever The college admissions process can drive teens and their parents crazy this time of year. Here are some statistics to get clients of college-bound kids to simmer down. |
Registered Rep.
October 15, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College at a Discount Next year, a Minnesota-based university will cut its tuition by 33 percent for all its students. Others will likely follow. |
Registered Rep.
March 27, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The Nation's Most Generous Colleges While there are nearly 2,800 four-year colleges and universities in the United States, there are just over five dozen that claim that they meet 100 percent of their students' demonstrated financial need. |
Reason
April 2009
Shikha Dalmia |
Rank Order For whatever reason, there are precious few comprehensive guides to higher education outside of the annual college rankings prepared by U.S. News & World Report. |
Registered Rep.
September 16, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The Real Costs of College A net price calculator allows clients to look beyond sticker prices to focus on the only price that matters to a mom and dad: the price they'll pay for their child to attend college. |
Registered Rep.
September 27, 2010
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College In Four Years, Not Six Before a teenager falls in love with any colleges be sure to check their graduation rates. It could save your clients tens of thousands of dollars. |
Registered Rep.
May 20, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Unlocking College Data What good are the loads of data about colleges, if families can't access it? Here are four websites that are opening the vault. |
Registered Rep.
September 19, 2014
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The College Illusion Are your clients, who could be paying as much as a quarter of a million dollars to send one child to college, getting their money's worth? |
Registered Rep.
December 19, 2011
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
8 Facts You Didn't Know About the ACT and SAT In honor of test-taking season, here are some valuable statistics to know about the two tests. |
BusinessWeek
March 19, 2007
Louis Lavelle |
Playbook: Does Your School Make The Grade? Here are four things to consider when applying to an undergrad business program. |
Registered Rep.
November 19, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Value Investing for College Several schools recently dubbed the best value by Kiplinger's also charge the highest net prices in the nation. Shame. |
BusinessWeek
February 27, 2006
William Symond |
The Thinking at Harvard, West Point, and Smith Elite colleges are looking to expand their intakes of low-income students. Here's how three big names are doing it. |
BusinessWeek
April 16, 2007
Christoph Guttentag |
The College Crunch: Why Getting In Has Gotten So Tough For many American families, March Madness refers not to a basketball tournament but to the ever-increasing anxiety in the weeks before colleges mail their acceptance letters. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012 |
HHMI Awards $50 Million to Colleges Forty-seven small colleges and universities have accepted a challenge: to create more engaging science classes, bring real-world research experiences to students, and increase the diversity of students who study science. |
BusinessWeek
November 15, 2004
William C. Symonds |
Should Public Universities Behave Like Private Colleges? Public Universities are hiking tuition and becoming more elitist, ducking a key social role. |
Reason
February 2008
Shikha Dalmia |
Legacies of Injustice Alumni preferences threaten educational equity and no one seems to care. |
Registered Rep.
June 20, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Don't Hide the Disability While it isn't highly publicized, many colleges have resources for children with learning disabilities. |
BusinessWeek
March 19, 2007
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Scholarships: Not Just For The Needy Why schools are giving more scholarship money to affluent kids. |
Registered Rep.
October 3, 2011
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
What College Costs Thanks to a new federally mandated cost calculator, parents can learn far in advance what a particular college will cost them, which should lead to better informed decisions. |
Registered Rep.
March 18, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Getting the Most Bang for Your Tuition Bucks Many students and parents don't have the resources to benchmark colleges against one another, but the government has unveiled an online College Scorecard, which will allow families to compare schools based on simple criteria. |
Entrepreneur
April 2003
Newton & Henricks |
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? You bet it can -- and in our 1st Annual Top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges and Universities, we reveal which U.S. schools do it best. |
BusinessWeek
September 25, 2006
Mark Scott |
Who Needs Harvard Or Yale? U.S. students are discovering the advantages of elite British universities. |
Registered Rep.
November 17, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
What Public Universities Cost at the State Level Public universities, where most students attend, charge significantly different prices. And the policies that dictate who receives financial aid and merit scholarships also vary dramatically. |
AFP eWire
March 5, 2007 |
Schools Manipulating Alumni Giving Rates? In an effort to increase their alumni giving rates and overall school rankings, many colleges and universities have resorted to some dubious tactics. |
BusinessWeek
February 27, 2006
William C. Symonds |
Campus Revolutionary Tony Marx has a radical plan to get more poor kids into top colleges, starting with Amherst. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011 |
HHMI Announces $60 Million Competition for Colleges Challenging colleges and universities to think creatively about how they teach science, HHMI has invited 215 undergraduate-focused institutions across the country to apply for a total of $60 million in science education grants. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 25, 2011
Christensen & Eyring |
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University Online learning is a disruptive technology that is making colleges and universities reconsider their higher education models. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2000 |
Portals A listing of Internet portals and education services for teachers, parents, and students... |
Registered Rep.
October 23, 2007
John Churchill |
College Costs: Up, Up and Away Recently released survey of college costs found that tuition and fees at 4-year public universities rose 6.6 percent per year in 2007. |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2006
Rich Smith |
Don't Flunk Your Retirement Will putting your kid through college put you in the poorhouse? Spend a little time poring over the resumes of America's most powerful CEOs, and you'll be struck by how very few of them graduated from elite schools. |
Searcher
May 2006
Barbie E. Keiser |
Beyond ERIC: The Early Years (Part 3) As education moves us from the realm of the child to the adult, the emphasis of the resources shifts from education to learning, with greater responsibility placed on the student for finding, using, sharing, and expanding knowledge in a particular discipline. |
CRM
May 2011
Leonard Klie |
Higher Education Increases Marketing Schools shift focus to generate more inquiries in-house and boost technology investments. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2005
Jones & Aaronson |
Showing Some Class Universities reach out to those affected by Katrina. |
Salon.com
February 22, 2001
Amy Benfer |
After the SAT As the University of California considers dropping the test, admissions directors of two colleges talk about what happened after they made it optional... |
BusinessWeek
October 23, 2006 |
How We Come Up With The Rankings The process by which business schools are ranked for a new report. |
Inc.
September 2008
Andrew Clark |
How I Did It: Andrew Clark, Bridgepoint Education Andrew Clark offers both virtual and ivy-covered experiences through Bridgepoint Education. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2009 |
Student Attitudes: Online Learning Students participating in a survey reveal their opinions about online learning courses. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2011
Brian Stoffel |
Shame of a Nation A New York Times article ironically shows how far we still have to go. |
Entrepreneur
May 2004
Mark Henricks |
Extra Credit Find out which schools make the grade in our 2nd Annual Top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges and Universities. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2004 |
The Webby Awards The international honors for Web sites has opened up this year's competition to include categories for schools and universities, students, and general education. |
InternetNews
January 25, 2011 |
Google Targets Education With New Apps Section Google builds on established partnerships with schools and universities to develop a separate category for education applications in its Apps Marketplace. |
Registered Rep.
February 19, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Majoring in Employment One of the top reasons students attend college is to get a good job. But just how much will schools help in the job search? |
Registered Rep.
November 21, 2011
Liz O'Shaughnessy |
Negotiating through the Maze of College Costs One of the biggest mistakes that families with college-bound teenagers make is looking in the wrong places for college cash. |
Registered Rep.
September 21, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
An Untapped Market in College Financial Planning There is one field where you won't get jostled: The niche for good late-stage college planning. It is just about deserted. |
