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Horn, Laura; Paslov, Jonathan – National Center for Education Statistics, 2014
This Data Point uses data from four administrations of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:2000, NPSAS:04, NPSAS:08, and NPSAS:12) to briefly present trends in out-of-pocket net price for college, the amount that students and their families must pay to attend college after subtracting grants, loans, work-study, and all other…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Parent Financial Contribution, Private Colleges, Public Colleges
Sallie Mae, Inc., 2014
Sallie Mae has conducted "How America Pays for College" annually since 2008, providing information about the resources American families invest in an undergraduate college education. This study focuses particularly on the planning and payment behaviors in a given academic year. Now in its seventh year, the study provides a compelling…
Descriptors: Paying for College, National Surveys, Parent Surveys, Student Surveys
Davis, Jerry S. – 1984
Differences in Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) default trends among 54 U.S. state/territory guarantee agencies were investigated, based on September 1981, 1982, and 1983 quarterly reports. The states/territories were grouped into four categories based on a classification of loan volumes and the agencies' years of experiences. Among findings are…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Debt (Financial), Higher Education
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1988
A summary of the information presented at a May 31, 1988 meeting between the staff members of the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education and the General Accounting Office (GAO) is provided. The information represents preliminary results of the GAO analysis of the characteristics of borrowers and defaulters in the Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL)…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Financial Support
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
The report presents information collected by the U.S. General Accounting Office on the Supplemental Loans for Students (SLS) program, which provides market rate loans to postsecondary students in addition to, or in lieu of, other financial aid such as Stafford Loans and Pell grants. Some of the data are as follows: over $3.2 billion in SLS loans…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Students, Donors, Educational Finance
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
Information is presented on student default rates at 7,800 postsecondary schools. The report builds on previous data and offers a summary analysis of the approximately 1.2 million 1983 borrowers' rates of default by kinds of schools that borrowers and defaulters attended and length in years of their schools' academic programs. Information is…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Loan Repayment, National Surveys
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC. National Inst. of Independent Colleges and Universities. – 1978
The Tuition Advance Fund (TAF) bill is analyzed on theoretical economic grounds, and forecasts of the net costs of the proposed program up to 1990 are offered. The TAF bill proposes the establishment of a new system of college loans as an addition to existing programs to allow students to borrow tuition plus an allowance for other costs. Novel…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation