Blog posts tagged with "infographic"

  • August 9, 2013

    pic from flickr user quinn.anya http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/5308895065/

    (photo from flickr user quinn.anya)

     

    2013 College Student Pulse, a new survey jointly released by Seventeen & Citi on college finances, revealed some very interesting information about college students working and paying for the many costs of college.

  • March 13, 2013

     

     

    A new infographic from the website BrainTrack came out recently. It demonstrates that what students and parents think of colleges can be valuable information with multiple applications.

  • September 9, 2012

    We fundamentally believe in the value of higher education to advance the quality of the lives of the students, families and communities where they eventually serve. 

  • September 1, 2012

    We have a continuing theme regarding the first year experience of college students that we are exploring. 

    Most families we speak with share with us the anxiety about this transition.   The reality is that families of new college students recognize that the transition to college is a BIG deal.   The transition is a major life event for both students and the family. 

    Our last post reported research by UCLA - that about 25% of freshmen students do not progress successfully to become sophomores. 

  • August 30, 2012

    Parents of new college students recognize that the transition to college is a BIG deal.   The transition is a major life event for both students and the family. 

    In fact, according to the research by UCLA - about 25% of freshmen students do not progress successfully to become sophomores.  Despite the efforts of so many people to select, enroll and pay for that freshmen year, many students do not overcome the obstacles they face in their new environment.  

  • May 25, 2011
  • March 24, 2011

    Amidst the anxiety over U.S. students slipping in international math and science rankings, there is a more crippling epidemic plaguing education in America: abysmal high school graduation rates. While there is an outpouring of concern over how American students fare on tests, we seem to have forgotten about the students who don’t even make it to the test.

    The infographic below is a frightful illustration of how a student dropping out of high school affects us all.

  • March 18, 2011

    Most students need help paying for college, but where does financial aid come from and how do you get it? Billions of dollars are used to finance higher education each year; in 2009-10 alone, $199.2 billion was awarded to students in the form of grants, in addition to another $8.5 billion in state and private loans. Want to see some numbers? Here’s a breakdown of college financial aid: where it comes from, where it goes and all the other details.

  • February 21, 2011

    What does the statistically average undergraduate look like? And what are some of the characteristics of the undergraduate population as a whole?

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