Student Debt and the Class of 2019

Fact sheet analyzing the student debt for college graduates in Michigan.

A brief co-authored by The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) and the Institute for College Access & Success revisits some of the colleges we profiled in 2014 to learn how their approaches to default prevention have evolved over time, and highlights strategies community colleges use to support students and improve their cohort default rates (CDRs).

Report finds that college Net Price Calculators in Michigan are not consistently easy for students to find, use, or compare, and makes recommendations for how the federal government, states, and colleges can improve these college cost tools.

CIS tutorial webinar on College Insight, a unique resource that provides user-friendly college profiles as well as detailed, research-level higher education data for over 12,000 U.S. colleges and universities, including over 1,600 in California, and includes over 400 variables.

Report sheds light on the role institutional grants play in supplementing federal and state aid to support affordable and equitable college opportunity in California, highlighting the scale and diversity of these programs in the state’s public and private nonprofit colleges.

Analysis finds that out-of-pocket college costs are unaffordable for low-income Californians, and often more so at the state’s community colleges where tuition is low. This analysis is the third in a series, and is the first to look at affordability challenges of students in different living arrangements.