Student loans

Parents of college students are taking on bigger Parent PLUS loans and defaulting more frequently, a Brookings Institution report finds.

Seth Frotman, the former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has launched a nonprofit to monitor and help reform the student loan system.

Michael Bloomberg’s gift, which brings his lifetime giving to Hopkins to $3.3 billion, will allow the school to establish need-blind admissions and eliminate loans from financial aid packages. But it…

An interactive map shows how the student debt burden disproportionately affects zip codes with less economic opportunity.

New analyses highlight average debt levels by state, disparities in student loan default rates, and the surprisingly small number of applicants approved for the public service loan forgiveness program.

The FAFSA will soon be available on a new mobile app and a website redesigned to work well on devices like phones and tablets.

The Department of Education has come under fire for shielding student loan companies from state law enforcement officials and federal regulators who accuse the companies of misleading borrowers.

Newly released federal data on students’ loan default rates show that the student debt crisis “is worse than we imagined,” according to the senior director for postsecondary education at the…

Seth Frotman says the Trump Administration is “leav[ing] students vulnerable to predatory practices.”…

A new report finds that individuals who complete college are far more likely than non-completers to begin repaying their federal student loans.