Here’s how to figure out whether you should use private loans to pay for college and how to find the right lender.

Graduate school is an expensive proposition: The average cost of a two-year Master's degree is around $73,520, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, while a four-to-eight-year ...

The U.S. Department of Education announced federal student loan rates for the 2024 to 2025 academic year, and they're the highest they've been in over a decade. Interest on direct subsidized and ...

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The Federal Reserve's expected to hold the federal funds rate steady after its first meeting of 2026 this week — this after three consecutive rate cuts last year. That said, if you have a ...

“There is no way of knowing if the private loan market will offer loans to people with no credit history or who come from low and moderate-income families.” A demonstrator holds a sign reading ‘Bad ...

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