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Sticker prices at private colleges may be sky high, but what many students actually pay has been lower as those schools aggressively compete by dangling deep tuition discounts. Now, a new study finds that for the first time, entering and returning undergraduates at those schools, on average, are paying less

Colleges and universities are providing students more in tuition breaks than they collect, in sign of growing budgetary strains

A newly announced $300 million donation to Harvard University has rekindled the long-running debate over wealth disparities in higher education, with a sliver of elite colleges holding billions in endowments while other schools struggle to get by.

Despite negative investment performance and a drop in asset values in 2022, endowments provided $25.85 billion in financial support in fiscal 2022, a NACUBO-TIAA study found.

Tuition discount rates at private colleges reached a record high of 54.5 percent, according to a new NACUBO study. That signals that financial aid is available—but also that pricing is arbitrary.

For every dollar in tuition and fees collected from first-time undergraduates, private colleges used nearly 55 cents for financial aid.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) May 19, 2022 -- Average private college and university tuition discount rates continue to climb—but a new analysis from the National

The average endowment’s size increased by 35 percent, leaving 19 percent of institutions with endowments worth more than $1 billion. But experts say few students benefited from that growth.

College and university endowments returned an average net 30.6% in the fiscal year ended June 30, according to a NACUBO-TIAA study.

The boom in U.S. stock prices drove the high returns. “Whenever the stock market does well, endowments -- just like other institutional investors -- tend to do very well. So last fiscal year -- the year that ended June 30 -- the stock market as measured by the S&P 500 did about 40.8 percent, which is astounding,” said Ken Redd, director of research and policy analysis at the National Association of College and University Business Officers. “So whenever you get a major stock index like t...