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Category: Financial Aid & FAFSA

Average Cost of Attendance (COA), Grant Aid, and Net COA, 2006-07 to 2025-26, Four-Year Public Institutions

October 21, 2026 wswail

This chart shows the inflation-adjusted trends in published cost of attendance (COA), grant aid, and net COA at public four-year…

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Posted in: 2026, College Costs & Affordability, Financial Aid & FAFSA Filed under: affordability, cost of attendance, Financial Aid, Net Cost, Net Price, Student Aid, student debt, tuition and fees

Why Students Did Not Complete the FAFSA, 2021

October 13, 2026 wswail

This EPIGraph presents the reasons students reported for not completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The most…

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Posted in: 2026, Financial Aid & FAFSA Filed under: affordability, FAFSA, Financial Aid, Student Aid, student debt

Published Tuition and Fees vs. Net Tuition and Fees, Four-Year Public and Private (NP) Institutions, 2010-11 to 2025-26 (in 2025 dollars)

June 3, 2026 wswail

This EPIGraph highlights the variation between published tuition and fee charges versus net tuition and fee charges, as defined by…

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Posted in: 2026, College Costs & Affordability, Financial Aid & FAFSA, Institutions, Rankings, & Systems Filed under: college, enrollment, featured, higher education, historical

EPIGraph – Expected Family Contributions (EFC) for Undergraduate Students (2020)

March 2, 2026 wswail

Today’s EPIGraph takes a look at what we call the “EFC,” or the Expected Family Contribution, for undergraduate students and…

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Posted in: 2026, College Costs & Affordability, EPIGraph, Financial Aid & FAFSA, Institutions, Rankings, & Systems Filed under: international comparison, literacy, reading, writing

Cumulative amount borrowed for undergraduate studies (2020)

August 18, 2025 wswail

Today’s EPIGraph focuses on the cumulative amount of funds borrowed to support undergraduate studies for students who borrowed. The four…

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Posted in: 2025, College Costs & Affordability, Financial Aid & FAFSA, Student Debt & Borrowing Filed under: Loan Debt, Undergraduate borrowing

Pell Grants vs. Cost of Attendance

July 11, 2019 wswail

The relative purchasing power of the Pell Grant has stayed steady between 2003 and 2015, according to data from the…

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Posted in: 2019, College Costs & Affordability, EPIGraph, Financial Aid & FAFSA

Who Receives Financial Aid? (2016-17)

February 28, 2019 wswail

It may be of interest to readers which students receive financial aid at US colleges and universities. This EPIGraph illustrates…

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Posted in: 2019, EPIGraph, Financial Aid & FAFSA, Institutions, Rankings, & Systems

Total Student Loan Balances by Age Group, 2013 to 2017

January 4, 2019 wswail

A few weeks back to published an EPIGraph about the number of student borrowers by age group. This edition we…

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Posted in: 2019, EPIGraph, Financial Aid & FAFSA, Student Debt & Borrowing
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