College Pricing & Financial Aid

 News File

• Increase in Unsubsidized Stafford Loans Fuels Growth in Federal Borrrowing (March, 2008)
• Trends Reports Point to Continued Increases in Prices, Net Tuition, and Borrowing (November, 2007)
  

Reports

College Board- Trends in Higher Education Series

• Trends in College Pricing 2007 (October, 2007)
• Trends in Student Aid 2007 (October, 2007)
• Education Pays 2007: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society (September, 2007) 
   

U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics

• Wei, C.C., and Berkner, L. (2008). Trends in Undergraduate Borrowing II: Federal Student Loans in 1995–96,1999–2000, and 2003–04 (NCES 2008–179). National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC.

• Berkner, L., and Wei, C.C. (2006). 2003–04 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:04): Undergraduate Financial Aid Estimates for 12 States: 2003–04 (NCES 2006-158). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

• Berkner, L., and Wei, C.C. (2006). Student Financing of Undergraduate Education: 2003–04, With a Special Analysis of the Net Price of Attendance and Federal Education Tax Benefits (NCES 2006-186). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

• Choy, S., Li, X. (June, 2006). Dealing With Debt: 1992-93 Bachelor's Degree Recipients 10 Years Later. (NCES 2006-156). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics. 

• Cunningham, A.F. (November, 2005). Changes in Patterns of Prices and Financial Aid. (NCES 2006-153). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

• Berkner, L., He, S., Lew, S., Cominole, M., and Siegel, P. (February, 2005). 2003–04 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:04) Student Financial Aid Estimates for 2003–04. (NCES 2005–158). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.
  
  
  

Other Recent Publications and Projects

• Project on Student Debt Financial Aid Pledges: A number of colleges have recently announced financial aid policy changes that limit or eliminate student loans from financial aid packages.  The Project on Student Debt maintains a list of pledges offered and an analysis comparing the net cost of attendance at schools with this type of pledge.
  
  
• Heller, Donald E. (May, 2008).  Student Access and Strategie Pricing.  New York: TIAA-CREF Institute.
  
  
• Mierzwinski, E., Lindstrom, C. (March, 2008) The Campus Credit Card Trap: A Survey of College Students and Credit Card Marketing.  Washington, DC: The U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
  
  
• Frankle, D., Shireman, R. (April, 2008) Denied: Community College Students Lack Access to Affordable Loans.  Washington, DC: The Project on Student Debt.
  
  
• Lumina Foundation for Education. (March 2006). Seeking Solutions: A Gathering at the Summit.  Indianapolis, IN: Lumina Foundation for Education.  (Proceedings from a national summit on college costs held in November 2005).
  
  
• American Council on Education (August, 2007) Who Borrows Private Loans?  Washington, DC: American Council on Education.
  
  
• Cunningham, A., McSwain, C. (December, 2006). The Future of Private Loans: Who is Borrowing, and Why?  Washington, DC: Institute for Higher Education Policy.
  
  
• Baum, Sandy and Lucie Lapovsky.  (September, 2006).  Tuition Discounting: Not Just a Private College Practice.  New York:  The College Board. 
  
  
• Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance (September 2006).  Mortgaging Our Future: How Financial Barriers to College Undercut America's Global Competitiveness.  Washington, DC:  Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance.
  
  
• The Project on Student Debt (August, 2006). Student Debt and the Class of 2005. Washington, DC: The Project on Student Debt.
  
  
• Price, Derek V., Davis, Ryan J. (June, 2006). Institutional Grants and Baccalaureate Degree Attainment . Washington, DC: National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.
  
  
• The Project on Student Debt. (February, 2006). Addressing Student Loan Repayment Burdens: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Current System. The Project on Student Debt.
  
  
• King, Jacqueline E.  (February, 2006).  Missed Opportunities Revised: New Information on Students Who Did Not Apply for Financial Aid.  Washington, DC:  American Council on Education (ACE) Center for Policy Analysis.
  
  
• Lumina Foundation for Education. (October 2005). Course Corrections: Experts Offer Solutions to the College Cost Crisis.  Indianapolis, IN: Lumina Foundation for Education.
  
  
• Excelencia in Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy.  (August, 2005).  How Latino Students Pay for College: Patterns of Financial Aid in 2003-04.   Washington, DC:  Excelencia  in Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy.
  
  
• National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA).  (August, 2005). Federal Student Financial Aid: A National Profile of Programs in Title IV of the Higher Education Act.  Washington, DC: NASFAA. 
  
  

• Vincent, Fay. (June, 2005). No Merit in these Scholarships. Policy Perspectives.  Washington, DC:  Educational Policy Institute.
  

• Institute for Higher Education Policy.  (May, 2005).  Private Scholarships Count: Access to Higher Education and the Critical Role of the Private Sector.  Washington, DC: In collaboration with Scholarship America and the National Scholarship Providers Association.
  
  
• Perna, Laura and Lawrence Gladieux.  (May, 2005).  Borrowers Who Drop Out: A Neglected Aspect of the College Student Loan Trend.  San Jose, CA: Prepared for the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.