US EditionEducation Department says FAFSA will warn students looking at schools with low earning outcomes
Nearly 1,000 colleges, mostly private and trade schools, will display a FAFSA warning for graduates earning no more than high school graduates, informing better financial decisions.
- On Monday the U.S. Department of Education added FAFSA warnings for nearly 1,000 low-earning schools, using a new system to inform prospective students.
- To increase transparency, the Education Department framed FAFSA warnings as a way to dissuade prospective students from schools unlikely to boost earnings, invoking a `do no harm` expectation.
- Most flagged institutions are small, private, many cosmetology schools, which received nearly $4 billion in Pell and undergraduate aid in 2024-25, representing nearly 5 percent of federal aid.
- Under existing law, students seeing FAFSA warnings can still attend schools and use federal aid, while loan cuts under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act won't start until next summer at the earliest.
- If effective, warnings could steer students making college choices toward better options, improving earnings, increasing loan repayment, saving taxpayers, and benefiting society's overall economic capacity.
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Federal Student Loan Applicants to Be Warned About Colleges With Low Graduate Earnings
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Federal Student Loan Applicants to Be Warned About Colleges With Low Graduate Earnings - The Thinking Conservative News
The FAFSA process now informs applicants of their post-graduation earning potential based on data from colleges and universities. The post Federal Student Loan Applicants to Be Warned About Colleges With Low Graduate Earnings appeared first on The Thinking Conservative News.
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Education Department to Students: Please Enroll Responsibly
Prospective college students will now get a heads-up when the schools they’re considering could be hazardous to their financial health. On Monday, the Education Department rolled out a new initiative to give students advance warning when the schools they’re considering produce unacceptably low earnings outcomes. The move will improve transparency around student outcomes and warn students off attending schools that probably will not benefit them …
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