Paying for College

We’ve launched this new website to help families – students and parents – better understand how to pay for education.

The headlines have been consistent for a decade or more – college costs continue to soar. Family income hasn’t kept up, nor has federal aid. That’s a tough combination, and as a result, it’s harder than ever for families to pay for a quality college education.

But that’s the simple part. The hard part is figuring out what to do about it.

The world of education finance has become mind-bogglingly complex. There are subsidized Federal Stafford loans, unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loans, Perkins Loans, Pell Grants, 529 savings plans, institutional loans, and private loans. And that’s only some of the financing options available to help pay for college. Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of easy-to-access information sources that help people understand the advantages and disadvantages of all these options.

We hope to change that with this site.

In this blog, we’ll offer articles addressing all the issues and concerns families face when sending a child to college. The site will also be an online community with powerful features for all registered users, including:

- Discuss articles and issues in the comments section of each post
- Choose an area of interest and we’ll send you new articles as they are published
- Bookmark helpful articles so you can keep them as reference tools
- Select other users you find interesting and helpful and keep track of their comments

This is the first dynamic online community dedicated to paying for college. Since the US spends more than $350 billion on higher education, it’s about time.