Our college-ranking system is based on the economic value created for students. It is not another rehashed list of colleges, sorted by SAT score.

How do you develop a plan when you don’t know what to plan for? That is the question faced by every family with a child ready to apply for college. But that plan need not be made in a vacuum.

Weighty issues need to be considered before making expensive college commitments that could easily be disrupted in the coming months.

Planning for college and determining how to fund it is difficult in the best of times. But during a recession, it can be… a blessing? We’re not kidding, and here’s why.

Over the course of 20+ years, families have been bamboozled into spending trillions on top-end colleges, while overlooking the fact that it's actually the academic major that is far more important.