Sticker prices at private colleges may be sky high, but what many students actually pay has been lower as those schools aggressively compete by dangling deep tuition discounts. Now, a new study finds that for the first time, entering and returning undergraduates at those schools, on average, are paying less
A newly announced $300 million donation to Harvard University has rekindled the long-running debate over wealth disparities in higher education, with a sliver of elite colleges holding billions in endowments while other schools struggle to get by.
Despite negative investment performance and a drop in asset values in 2022, endowments provided $25.85 billion in financial support in fiscal 2022, a NACUBO-TIAA study found.
Tuition discount rates at private colleges reached a record high of 54.5 percent, according to a new NACUBO study. That signals that financial aid is available but also that pricing is arbitrary.