Colleges lobbied to kill a requirement that they use a uniform financial aid offer letter to help families easily compare costs.
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Graduate Loans Should Reflect Graduate Earnings
Scrapping unlimited Grad PLUS borrowing was a start. Now federal loan policy should align debt limits with what graduates in a given field are likely to earn.
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The GOP War on Nurses
To pay for tax cuts, Republicans cut graduate student loan support for female-dominated professions. That turns out to be bad policy and terrible politics.
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50 States, 50 Opportunities for Economic Mobility
Abundant and transparent data, plus best practices, can mean the world to students looking to move up the economic ladder.
Posted inCollege Guide
America’s Best Colleges for Research
For the past two decades, the Washington Monthly has included in its annual college rankings measures of a university’s research prowess—its record of producing the new scholarship and scholars that drive economic growth and human flourishing. This year, we’ve put those metrics into a separate ranking, the Best Colleges for Research, which appear at the […]
