These seven recent college grads bucked recent employment trends and landed great jobs after graduation. Here's how they did it. More
Graduates who majored in business administration, criminal justice, English, drama and psychology during college, are more likely to work in jobs they are overqualified for, according to a recent report.
Roughly 3% of college graduates have $100,000 in student loans or more. Here is the tale of Kelly Mears, a junior at Union College, who will graduate in two years with $100,000 in debt.
Student with a subsidized Stafford loan talks about the debt he faces and why Congress should extend the current interest rates of 3.4%.
With today's grads leaving school with an ever-increasing amount of debt, some four year degrees offer a much a better return on investment than graduate degrees do, a recent study found.
Two Senate bills that aim to help students taking out subsidized student loans this fall fail to gain passage.
Only if your child's death would create financial hardship for you, should you consider a term-life insurance policy.
Obama hit the White House stage on Friday to talk about student loan interest rates, which are scheduled to double July 1 for undergraduates students taking out subsidized loans.
It's looking increasingly likely some 7 million students taking out subsidized loans for the next school year will have to dig deeper in their pockets to pay them off.
Between ballooning student loans, credit cards and money owed to family members, graduates of the class of 2013 are facing an average $35,200 in debt, a Fidelity survey found.
There are ways to get around the provincial strictures of in-state rates.
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| 15 yr fixed | 3.15% | 3.18% | |
| 5/1 ARM | 2.87% | 2.85% | |
| 30 yr refi | 4.04% | 4.03% | |
| 15 yr refi | 3.14% | 3.16% |
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