More ways to find money for college students
If student loans, scholarships, grants, and all of those good things haven’t amounted to enough money for your student to pay for college, here are some more ways to find extra money for college students.
1. Accelerate your degree as a student: by taking accelerated classes, a student essentially crams a semester of material into 6-8 week sessions. Although these classes will be intense for a student that is just trying to find money to pay for college, getting your classes done this fast as a student will allow you to graduate much faster and save a lot of money in paying for college.
Students pay about half the money for an accelerated degree program than what they pay for normal college tuition. Also remember that many colleges offer bachelor’s degree programs to students that last only three years instead of four. Students taking this route will certainly save a lot of money in paying for college!
2. Consider being a transfer student: Don’t forget about the power of credit transfer as a college student, and how much money you can save for college by doing this. Quite often, the credits that you earn at a less-costly college (i.e. a junior college) can be transferred and applied for a degree from a pricey, top-tier school. By paying a minimum amount of money to attend a junior college, and then transferring to a prestigious school, a college student can get that prestigious diploma while paying much less money.
3. Go where you’re wanted! Every student is a star at the right college, and somewhere out there is a college that REALLY wants to have you as a student. Schools that want you, whether it is for your outstanding academic record, community service, or athletic ability, will offer you a lot of financial aid to go there. It is true, and money for college students endorses this, that going to a school like this could save you tens of thousands of dollars in financial aid. The key is just finding schools like this and making sure that you like what they have to offer.
4. Go to a tuition-free school? Really? Is that true? Yes! There are schools out there that offer a ton of money for college students; in fact, they will offer to give a student enough money to pay for their entire college education! The catch will be that the student will probably have to work 10-15 hours a week on campus and in jobs that relate to their majors. Tuition-free universities include: The Cooper Union in New York, Berea College, College of the Ozarks, Alice Lloyd College, and the Webb Institute. Your top school might not be on this list, but by going to one of these schools, they will cover all of the money that you would otherwise have to pay to attend college as a student.
Feb 16, 2009
