Tag Archives: comparative college finances

Wesleyan is Expensive!

Nobody is surprised! HuffPo listed the Top Ten most expensive colleges in the country (yearly tuition + room/board), and Wesleyan is #11 at $50,862.
The Top Ten:
1. Sarah Lawrence College — $54,410
2. New York University — $51,991
3. The George Washington University — $51,730
4. Bates College — $51,300
5. Skidmore College — $51,196
6. Johns Hopkins University — $51,190
7. [...]

College may become out of reach for most in U.S.

And you thought bigger class sizes might be a problem.
According to a report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, college may soon be financially out of reach for most Americans. Highlighted in an article by the New York Times, the report found that
published college tuition and fees increased 439 percent from [...]

College may become out of reach for most in U.S.

And you thought bigger class sizes might be a problem.
According to a report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, college may soon be financially out of reach for most Americans. Highlighted in an article by the New York Times, the report found that
published college tuition and fees increased 439 percent from [...]

Quirky Gifts Limit University Spending

Earlier this year the federal government started investigating the finances of America’s largest universities, a practice that is shedding light on how gifts from wealthy donors often have quirky strings attached that limit how colleges can spend their money.
Like the guy whose endowment to Princeton is currently valued at $33 million, but can only be [...]

Quirky Gifts Limit University Spending

Earlier this year the federal government started investigating the finances of America’s largest universities, a practice that is shedding light on how gifts from wealthy donors often have quirky strings attached that limit how colleges can spend their money.
Like the guy whose endowment to Princeton is currently valued at $33 million, but can only be [...]

Ivy League Discounts- Making It Tougher for the Rest of Us?

You might be aware that last month Harvard radically changed its financial aid policy to greatly benefit students from families with annual incomes of up to $180,000 as well as financially less well-off ones. Not to be outdone, last week Yale announced that it will do the same for students whose families earn up [...]

Ivy League Discounts- Making It Tougher for the Rest of Us?

You might be aware that last month Harvard radically changed its financial aid policy to greatly benefit students from families with annual incomes of up to $180,000 as well as financially less well-off ones. Not to be outdone, last week Yale announced that it will do the same for students whose families earn up [...]

Money makes the world go round

And Yale’s world is spinning faster than ever, according to the New York Times:
Yale University is rebuilding itself — drawing on its huge, rapidly growing endowment and on multimillion-dollar gifts, mainly from alumni — to renovate 54 buildings and construct 16 new ones. Not since the 1930s has Yale undertaken so ambitious an expansion.
A lot [...]

Money makes the world go round

And Yale’s world is spinning faster than ever, according to the New York Times:
Yale University is rebuilding itself — drawing on its huge, rapidly growing endowment and on multimillion-dollar gifts, mainly from alumni — to renovate 54 buildings and construct 16 new ones. Not since the 1930s has Yale undertaken so ambitious an expansion.
A lot [...]