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Radwin, David; Wei, Christina Chang – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
Americans believe in the value of a college education, but worry about its price. Recent surveys show large majorities affirming the importance of postsecondary education, but characterizing it as too expensive and sometimes financially out of reach. This Statistics in Brief describes three measures of the price of undergraduate education in the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Costs, Tuition, Student Financial Aid
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Wei, Christina Chang; Berkner, Lutz; He, Shirley; Lew, Stephen; Cominole, Melissa; Siegel, Peter – National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
This is the First Look at the results of the 2007-08 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:08), the most comprehensive, nationally representative survey of student financing of postsecondary education in the United States. About 114,000 undergraduate students and 14,000 graduate and first professional students were randomly selected from…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Postsecondary Education, Student Financial Aid
Wei, Christina Chang; Horn, Laura – 2002
The Pell grant program is the largest federal need-based grant program available to postsecondary education students. This report provides a description of Pell Grant recipients who were first-time beginning postsecondary students in the 1995-1996 academic year. Using data from the 1996 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study First…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Educational Attainment, Federal Aid
Wei, Christina Chang; Li, Xiaojie; Berkner, Lutz – US Department of Education, 2004
The major driving forces of change in undergraduate student financing during the 1990s were tuition increases and the broader availability of federal student loans. This report uses data from four National Postsecondary Student Aid Studies (NPSAS) to look at changes in financial aid to students in four types of institutions: public 2-year; public…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, College Students, Full Time Students, Tuition
Horn, Laura; Wei, Christina Chang; Berker, Ali – 2002
Using data from the 1993-1993 and 1999-2000 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:93 and NPSAS:2000), this study examined the most recent trends in net price of college. Changes in net price were analyzed for higher education as a whole and within each type of institution for students with various levels of income and financial need.…
Descriptors: College Students, Costs, Educational Finance, Higher Education