Starting next week, the landscape of federal financial aid for college students will shift significantly. The Department of Education’s new Reimagining and Improving Student Education (RISE) program ...

Newly minted high school graduates listen to speeches from their classmates during commencement exercises on June 12, 2025, at Kiwanis Field in La Porte, Ind. For the first time this year, high school ...

The so-called “sibling discount” for families with multiple children in college has been eliminated from federal financial ...

Grad PLUS Loan, a federal student loan program for graduate students, is ending for new borrowers. Here’s what SC borrowers ...

With new federal loan caps taking effect on July 1, more families will need to rely on private lenders to pay for college.

There’s one form prospective and current college students must submit in order to receive federal financial aid, and it looks a lot different than in prior years. The Free Application for Federal ...

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To get any college aid, students must file a Free Application for Federal Student Aid. To improve access, a simplified FAFSA is rolling out in December with a new formula for calculating aid. Among ...

Erie County Community College, or EC3, has been approved to award federal financial aid to their students. Officials made the ...

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Families fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid each year since this is the best (and only) way to qualify for certain types of financial assistance for college. That said, recent ...

Federal Title IV funds are awarded to a student under the assumption that the student will attend school for the entire period for which assistance is awarded. Students receiving financial aid who ...