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Download full textSallie Mae Bank, 2024
The report examines how enrolled undergraduate students and parents of undergraduates view higher education and how they pay for it. The report considers education funding sources--from parent and student income and savings to scholarships, grants, and borrowed funds--and evaluates trends in payment strategies over time. This 17th edition provides…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Paying for College, Financial Aid Applicants, Parent Financial Contribution
Peer reviewedBahr, Steven; Sparks, Dianah; Hoyer, Kathleen Mulvaney – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is an important tool to help students find financial assistance. Not only do students fill out the FAFSA to apply for federal aid for post-secondary education, but also to be considered for aid by states, institutions, and private funders. Thus, filling out the FAFSA, specifically, and applying…
Descriptors: College Students, College Applicants, Student Financial Aid, Financial Aid Applicants
Sallie Mae Bank, 2018
Since 2008, Sallie Mae has surveyed American families with an undergraduate student about their attitudes toward college and how they paid for it. For the past ten years, the "How America Pays for College" research has provided insight regarding families' belief in the value of a college education, how they are making college more…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Student Loan Programs, Undergraduate Students, National Surveys
Macro International, Inc., Calverton, MD. – 1997
Volume 1 of this document reports the results of a telephone survey of approximately 3,600 student and parent borrowers who originated loans during the 1994-95 academic year using two Title IV Federal student loan programs, the Direct Loan and the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) programs. The objective of the survey was to provide baseline…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Finance
Mortenson, Thomas G. – 1989
This document, the fourth in a series of student financial aid research reports, focuses on need analysis in student financial aid. Nearly all of the family contribution expected by the analysis of ability to pay is produced by family income, and the Congressional Methodology implemented for the 1988-89 academic year places even greater emphasis…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Attendance, College Bound Students, Educational Finance
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. Graduate and Professional School Financial Aid Service. – 1985
Demographic and economic information were collected about students who applied for financial aid to attend graduate or professional school for academic years 1981-1984 through the Graduate and Professional School Financial Aid Service (GAPSFAS). GAPSFAS is a centralized financial need analysis service used by more than 700 graduate and…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Applicants, Debt (Financial), Dental Students
Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, Washington, DC. – 1997
This paper assesses the likely impact of proposed changes in the Office of Postsecondary Education's method of calculating parental base-year income on determining eligibility for student financial aid. In examining applicant data the study concludes that the change to use of prior, prior year (PPY) income is not a good proxy for the current prior…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Eligibility, Family Financial Resources
