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“Online learning can be more than lectures. Another element involves presenting information in an interactive form, which can be used to find out what a student knows and doesn’t know”Bill gates

Online or traditional college

Nowadays, the options to get a degree are growing. Online degrees are becoming more and more popular among students with increasingly busy lives. That’s not to say that on-campus degrees are becoming the minority to online degrees, but students are choosing the alternative. This post talks about some pros and cons of both the options.

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Every parent wants the best for their child and a college education usually leads to better jobs and a brighter future. In the United States, college tuition for 4 year state colleges and universities is thousands of dollars a year and rising. Private institutions may charge over $50,000 a year for a 4 year program and the average student is graduating with more than $25,000 in student loan debt.

Student Loan

Most families are unable to meet these costs without financial aid and parents want to do everything they can to provide their children the opportunity of a better future, but you should first consider a few important factors before cosigning a student loan.

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The premise of FASFA, as the first abbreviation denotes, is to extend free financial help to needy learners. FAFSA is not totally scam proof.

FAFSA Scam

Before we start with anything else, Here’s a good article by department of education on college scholarship fraud issue. If you are applying for college or know someone who is doing, this article can be an useful resource for you.

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Enjoy these timely and helpful tips, regarding financial aid for students, from our guest poster, Saurav.

Now that you have carefully picked the college and major, you should think of getting financial aids, not to blow the student loan bubble further.

The reality is, most college students have a difficult time when it comes to paying the school expenses. As we all know, school fees are either maintained or increasing every year. Your decision is what matters most because it will determine your future and any mistake might hurt it. But don’t worry; there is still a solution to your every problem and it might not be too late to repair the damage.

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The other day I was consulting  my cousin. She wants to come to United States for higher studies. I did some research for her. This post is an output of that research. There are careers, high paying ones, that don’t require you to have college degree. On the other side there are careers

Career after college

which do need appropriate college degree. Here’s 100 of ‘em from CNN Money. For me, I am from a orthodox family which always have advocated for education. Even knowing that career can be had without a degree. Even when my father didn’t have enough money to send me to college, he encouraged me to do so. Luckily the college I was admitted to had govt. subsidized education system.

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