Q&A: Sandy Baum explains new report on college costs
The good news for President Barack Obama’s college completion agenda: college enrollments are up from last year. And the good news for students: even as increases in the cost of college continue to outpace inflation, students are actually paying less to attend college now (when financial aid is taken into account) than they were a year ago.
“Trends in College Pricing 2010” and “Trends in Student Aid 2010,” both released today by the College Board’s Advocacy and Policy Center, track data about college cost and financial aid going back to the 1980s. The key findings?
- College costs are on the rise, regardless of the type of institution. In-state tuition and costs rose the