Higher Education "Plan B" student loan cancellation is alive and well The Department of Education floats a "narrow" loan-cancellation plan for which 71 percent of former college students could qualify.
Higher Education The misguided student loan payment pause will (finally) end The pause mostly benefitted wealthy borrowers and failed to reduce indebtedness.
Higher Education Unlimited graduate student loans mostly benefit wealthy universities USC and NYU each receive more federal Grad PLUS loans than all HBCUs put together.
Higher Education How student loan repayment changes may undermine college accountability Low-quality colleges deterred from participating in the federal student loan program may decide to jump back in.
Higher Education A ‘shame list’ for low-financial-value college degrees isn’t nearly enough Making the student loan repayment system more generous won't work without holding colleges accountable.
Student Loans New Biden income-driven repayment rule could cost $361 billion The proposed changes would slash student loan payments and subsidize low-return programs.
Higher Education Court strikes down Biden loan forgiveness, but now the real work begins Congress must rein in the federal student loan program, which will lend $85 billion to students this year.
Higher Education Why Republicans should embrace student loan reform Without changes to the federal student-loan program, future generations will face ever-increasing costs for degrees that don't pay off.
Student Loans Loan forgiveness is a bad way to support public servants A better way is to remove unnecessary degree requirements from public service jobs.
Student Loans “Fresh start” for defaulted student borrowers should come with broader reforms The Biden administration should push for policies to prevent new defaults going forward.
Student Loans Pausing student loan payments isn't the answer for economic disruptions The Biden administration wrongly extends the student loan payment moratorium another three months.
Higher Education 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.
Higher Education Selection bias and the true value of college Are differences in earning among college majors driven by cognitive ability rather than the job market?
Student Loans 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.
Higher Education 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.
Student Loans 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.
Student Loans 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.
Student Loans Some questionable student loan math at the Department of Education Official accounting has vastly understated the scale of taxpayer losses on federal student loans.
Higher Education 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.
Higher Education 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.
Student Loans 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.
