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Higher Education

Employers are finally dropping college degree requirements

Flexible job postings give companies access to a more economically diverse pool of talent.

Higher Education

Legacy admissions preferences should end, but not by federal mandate

A federal mandate to end legacy admissions would be hard to enforce without intrusive micromanagement by Washington.

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Pausing student loan payments isn't the answer for economic disruptions

The Biden administration wrongly extends the student loan payment moratorium another three months.

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The most valuable degrees at less selective colleges

Iowa State University, which accepts 87% of applicants, boasts nine degrees with a return on investment of $900,000 or more.

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Selection bias and the true value of college

Are differences in earning among college majors driven by cognitive ability rather than the job market?

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The Biden administration should finalize its plan to resume student loan payments

The two-year moratorium on loan payments has cost taxpayers over $100 billion.

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We calculated return on investment for 30,000 bachelor’s degrees—find yours

Browse our interactive table to find earnings and cost data for your college and major.

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America’s richest universities rely on taxpayer-backed graduate loans

Ivy League schools get 76% of their federal student aid revenues from taxpayer-backed loans to graduate students.

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No, colleges aren’t using Covid relief funds to forgive student debt

Colleges are clearing unpaid student account balances, which is cheaper—for them—than student loan forgiveness.

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‘Free college’ won’t solve the real problems in higher education

Students aren’t directly paying for rising higher ed costs. Taxpayers are, through the vast array of government-funded subsidies for postsecondary education.

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Supreme Court rules college sports are not above antitrust law

Colleges and universities get a pass for behavior we would never tolerate elsewhere. A new Supreme Court decision on compensating student-athletes is a first step toward correcting that.

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Fixing higher education requires more than just spending money

The United States already spends more than most other countries on college. The real problem in our higher education system is quality.

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Some questionable student loan math at the Department of Education

Official accounting has vastly understated the scale of taxpayer losses on federal student loans.

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Biden's higher education plan misses the underlying problem

The free community college push has its priorities backward. Quality, not price, is generally the problem at community colleges.

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Time to start planning for student loan payments to resume

After more than 18 months, the current suspension of federal student loan payments is slated to end on October 1. Policymakers need to start planning now. Restarting loan payments for over 20 million borrowers isn’t nearly as simple as turning on a light switch.

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How Congress can support U.S. apprenticeships

As the cost of college skyrockets, more young people are looking to apprenticeships, which provide on-the-job learning, a training wage, and a direct line into high-earning jobs. But apprentices still constitute a much smaller share of the U.S. labor force than they do in peer nations.

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Fixing the student loan safety net

Over 8 million borrowers are now paying back their loans through income-driven repayment. IDR has undoubtedly kept many people out of default. But the program has a downside: sharply escalating costs that threaten the long-term fiscal stability of the student loan system.

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