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College savings advice from CNNMoney
| College savings advice - CNNMoney.com Updated : Student loans: Hit a bull's-eye with your FAFSA If you have a child headed off to college this fall, you've got an important item on your to-do list: the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which you can submit as early as Jan. 1. Publ.Date : Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:23:31 EST Northwestern Kellogg to shrink two-year MBA program The school plans to put less of an emphasis on its traditional two-year degree program as part of a sweeping strategic review at the school. Publ.Date : Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:20:39 EST Whose income goes on the financial aid application? Publ.Date : Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:39:16 EST UCLA rejects 52 MBA applicants for plagiarism All told, UCLA's Anderson school found that 52 MBA candidates were lifting whole paragraphs from other, unattributed sources in their essays. And they are far from the only B-school dealing with the problem. Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:43:40 EST Class of 2011 scores higher-paying jobs The class of 2011 scored higher-paying jobs than graduates the year before, with engineering and computer science majors taking home the fattest paychecks. Publ.Date : Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:02:35 EST Worst major for college grads If you want the best odds of getting a job after graduation, don't major in architecture. Publ.Date : Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:23:10 EST Should I use my 401k to pay off student loans? While it's tempting to consider using retirement funds to pay off student loan debt, there are huge drawbacks, warns Mark Kantrowitz, founder of Finaid.org. Publ.Date : Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:07:41 EST Weaning college kids off the family dime Did you ever want to be a personal-finance advice columnist? Well, here's your chance. Publ.Date : Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:26:05 EST Guide to college savings plans 1. Saving for your own retirement is more important than saving for college. Publ.Date : Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:29:07 EST Want cheaper tuition? Find religion With church membership dwindling and more families struggling to afford the cost of college, many private religiously-affiliated colleges and universities are slashing tuition and offering incentives to attract new students -- and to stay afloat. Publ.Date : Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:29:25 EST Colleges pay presidents millions while raising tuition Some private colleges are paying their top executives millions of dollars, at the same time they're hiking tuition prices for students. Publ.Date : Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:27:33 EST |