college costs

Provides information and guidance for funding a college education, covering financial aid eligibility and forms, negotiation with the financial aid office, short- and long-term funding strategies, special circumstances for single parents and independent students, and other topics, and including sample forms, as well as information on new federal laws that affect college financing.

Offers advice on how to get financial aid to attend college; looks at the financial aid situation at more than three thousand colleges, universities, and technical schools; discusses scholarships and work; and includes application deadlines, tips on filling out forms, and definitions of key terms.

Offers advice on how to apply for financial aid, features step-by-step instructions for filling out a simplified FAFSA form, and looks at the financial aid profiles of some three thousand colleges, universities, and technical schools.

Presents the 2006 College Cost and Financial Aid handbook featuring over three thousand four-year and two-year colleges, descriptions of their financial aid packages, tuition costs, and scholarship programs.

Offers advice on how to get financial aid to attend college, looks at the financial aid situation at more than three thousand colleges, universities, and technical schools, and includes application deadlines, tips on filling out forms, and definitions of key financial aid terms.

A guide to financing college that covers direct and indirect costs, student loans, aid eligibility, scholarships, tuition reward programs, and other related topics.

Contains profiles of 284 colleges recognized for their outreach efforts, scholarship and financial aid opportunities, and support and retention services, offers advice to students on how to prepare for college, and includes insider advice for college students and other experts.

Calling for a thorough overhaul of a self-indulgent system, the authors make an incisive case that the American way of higher education, now a $420 billion-per-year business, has lost sight of its primary mission: the education of young adults. Taking readers on a road trip from Princeton to Evergreen State to Florida Gulf Coast University, Hacker and Dreifus reveal those faculties and institutions that are getting it right and proving that teaching and learning can be achieved--and at a much more reasonable price.