Some of the top universities in the country are slashing or eliminating tuition costs, expanding financial aid and generally rethinking the affordability equation.

If you’re in the market for a student loan, there's more federal funding out there than you may think, but you'll have to dig deeper and work harder for it.  

There’s no one-size-fits-all formula. Pick a plan based on your savings goals, risk tolerance and time frame for college.

Their endowments exceed the market caps of companies and their investment returns are the envy of money managers.

The rising cost of higher education has become a hot-button issue for voters and is high on the list of campaign issues for two presidential candidates.

Washington is dusting off a lender-of-last-resort plan to provide for an uninterrupted supply of government-subsidized college student loans.

Columbia University is the latest top-tier institution to liberalize its financial aid policy to become more afforable to more students.

Employers expect to hire more college graduates this year than in 2007. And if you majored in one of these fields, you're in luck