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October 11, 2024
Let’s Open the Black Box of Selective College Admissions
…black and Latino first-year enrollment plunged, while the number of first-year Asian-American students spiked. At Wellesley, black student enrollment fell by nearly half and that of Latino students by almost a third. At…
October 10, 2024
Do Liberal Arts Colleges Pay Off? What the Data Say
…median return on investment of $889,000, compared to $652,000 for students who study the same subject at other colleges—a gap of $236,000. Economics majors at liberal arts colleges outperform their…
October 2, 2024
Higher Education: Making Education Beyond High School Work for All
…federal loans. Many students, especially those who grew up in families below the median income, got a raw deal from higher education. Disillusionment with college has yielded a 12 percent drop in…
September 11, 2024
After Decades of Competitive Admissions, Getting into College Has Finally Become Easier
…roughly 1,400 public and private nonprofit colleges that grant mostly bachelor’s degrees or higher, the median institution reduced its admissions rate by six percentage points between 2002 and 2012. Admissions…
January 11, 2024
Biden’s Dismantling of Federal Student Loan Programs Has Inspired Republicans to Go Big
…flexible loan limits which adjust based on the median cost of college for a given program. Moreover, it streamlines federal loan repayment programs, and prevents the Secretary of Education from…
December 8, 2023
A Framework for Reforming Federal Graduate Student Aid Policy
…“Grad PLUS loans”) have nearly tripled in the last seven years (from $37 billion to $90 billion). Median Grad PLUS loan balances are nearly triple what they were just ten…
December 8, 2023
Graduate Student Lending in Desperate Need of Reform
…from the US Department of Education, but they were constrained to reasonable levels. Since limitless credit became available to graduate students in 2005, graduate student debt has soared: The median…