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The College Investor podcast is a daily audio show that's dedicated to bringing you the best of TheCollegeInvestor.com. We discuss a variety of topics, all relating to millennial money - including student loan debt, investing, earning more money, and more! Robert Farrington, the founder of The College Investor and a Millennial Money Expert, shares how to get out of student loan debt so that you can start investing and building wealth for the future. Instead of cutting expenses and living a frugal life, he advocates side hustling and entrepreneurship to earn extra money to achieve your financial goals.
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- 2 days ago4 min
Texas State Doubles Free Tuition Income Cap To $100,000 For 2027 Freshmen
Texas State University is doubling the income limits on its free tuition program. Starting with the Fall 2027 entering class, first-time freshmen who graduate in the top 25% of their high school class and have a family adjusted gross income of $100,000 or less will qualify for free tuition and mandatory fees under the expanded Bobcat Promise.That makes Texas State a part of a growing list of colleges that have made tuition free for qualifying families.The university expects the expansion to benefit roughly 3,400 incoming freshmen. Students from families earning $50,000 or less remain eligible regardless of class rank, keeping the program’s original focus on Texas students with the greatest financial need.
- 3 days ago10 min
Bill Gates Says Heavy AI Use Could Cause Students To End Up Learning Less
Bill Gates published a 6,000-word essay on the AI transition, calling it “one of the most turbulent times in human history” and arguing the world has no real plan for it. He organizes the essay around three key risks (permanent job losses, AI-empowered bad actors, and damage to how kids develop and their education), at a moment when AI anxiety is already boiling over on campuses.The line that should stop educators cold: Gates writes that the same tool that will allow people to learn more than ever “could also lead to many people learning less.”He points to a preliminary survey that associated heavier AI use with weaker critical thinking, with the effect strongest among younger users.
- 4 days ago7 min
ASU’s New “Influencer Degree” Costs Up To $60,000 A Year. Will It Pay Off?
Arizona State University has launched a Bachelor of Arts in Content Creation through its Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, available at its downtown Phoenix campus, online, and through ASU Local. Coursework covers video and podcast production, audience analytics, brand voice, monetization, copyright, plus hands-on work through a Los Angeles Content Studio and brand content projects.Critics immediately branded it the “influencer degree,” reviving the debate over whether college is worth the investment at all.According to reporting from the Associated Press, the curriculum overlaps heavily with ASU’s existing mass communication degree, with the main difference being specialized electives in podcasting, studio production, and on-camera presence.ASU isn’t first, either: St. Bonaventure University announced a content creation major last winter, and Syracuse, Quinnipiac, and Colorado State offer minors. It’s part of a broader push by schools to add career-coded majors as more students choose work over college.
- 5 days ago7 min
Free Community College Pays For Itself, New NBER Study Finds
A new NBER working paper finds that Tennessee Promise, the nation’s first statewide free community college program, increased college enrollment, boosted degree completion, raised early-career earnings, and generated enough new tax revenue to more than cover its cost. The researchers estimate the program’s marginal value of public funds is infinite, meaning every public dollar spent produced positive benefits at no net cost to the government.The study, from economists at the University of Tennessee, Saint Mary’s College of California, and the Tennessee Office of Evidence and Impact, tracks the program from its 2009 single-county pilot in Knox County through statewide rollout in 2015. Tennessee’s model became the template for the more than 20 states that now offer some version of free community college, most using the same last-dollar structure.The program’s design is simple by financial aid standards. Any Tennessee high school graduate qualifies regardless of income, grades, or field of study, as long as they apply on time, complete mentoring and community service requirements, and enroll at a community college or college of applied technology the fall after graduation. That simplicity make it easy for students to benefit.
- 6 days ago8 min
Senators Demand ED Account for $1 Billion Student Loan Fund as Defaults Hit 9M
Four Senate Democrats want the Department of Education to provide answers on how it spent a $1 billion student loan administration fund created by last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. In a September 2 letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon (PDF File), Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) say the agency has already spent roughly $216 million from the fund without explaining what it spent them money on. Meanwhile, the number of borrowers in default has climbed to a record high.The $216 million figure comes from the Department of Education’s own Fiscal Year 2027 budget request, which reports that amount obligated as of the start of FY2026 and projects that more than $450 million will still be unspent when FY2027 begins. The senators note that Section 82005 of the OBBBA requires the money to go toward “administrative costs” of the federal student loan program, including servicing, but built in no reporting or oversight requirement.
- 1 weeks ago7 min
New Bill Would Use IRS Data To Automatically Put Struggling Student Loan Borrowers Into Low Payments
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) reintroduced the Streamlining Income-driven, Manageable Payments on Loans for Education (SIMPLE) Act on September 2, 2026, with six House Democratic cosponsors. The bill (H.R. 10220) would require the Department of Education to contact federal borrowers once they are 31 days past due, show them what they would owe under every income-driven repayment plan they qualify for, and then move them into the lowest-payment plan automatically if they are still delinquent at 75 days.The bill has been sent to the House Education and Workforce Committee and the Ways and Means Committee. NASFAA reports a similar bill was first introduced in 2016 and last reintroduced in 2024, and this version is largely unchanged apart from updates that add the Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP) to the list of eligible income-driven plans.
- 2 weeks ago29 min
NIL Money And Taxes: What College Athletes Owe The IRS, The FAFSA, And Their Agent
College athletes are getting paid, and many of them don’t know what to do with it to maximize their long term wealth. The money arrives with no tax withheld, no benefits attached, no HR department explaining anything, and a set of rules that punish anyone who assumes a paycheck is a paycheck.The window is short, too. NCAA data puts the odds of a draft-eligible football player getting drafted at 1.4%, and men’s basketball at 1.0%, while the NCAA’s own GOALS research found roughly 74% of FBS football players believe they’ll go pro. That gap is where the financial damage happens.The money comes from selling their Name, Image, and Likeness, or NIL. And it’s big business in college sports today.Here’s how the money works, what it costs, and what to do with what’s left.
- 2 weeks ago6 min
ED Changes Grad PLUS Rule: Credit Hours Now Decide Who Keeps Uncapped Student Loans
The Education Department has quietly changed how it decides whether continuing graduate students can still borrow uncapped Grad PLUS loans, and the change is already generating denials for students who have been enrolled.During an August 12 Federal Student Aid webinar on the implementation of new loan limits and the interim exception for continuing students, FSA staff told schools to calculate “expected time to credential” using credit hours completed rather than time enrolled. That formula determines how much longer a grandfathered borrower keeps access to Grad PLUS after the program formally ended on July 1, 2026.The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators called it a significant departure from prior guidance, noting that ED had previously told schools to measure the difference between program length in weeks, months, or years and the portion the student finished before July 1.Education Department spokesperson Ellen Keast told Inside Higher Ed the approach is “not anything new” and had come up in earlier virtual office hours, though the department did not point to where it was written down. When ED finalized the loan limits and new repayment plans, the written record pointed the other way: the final rule text at 34 CFR 685.102 and the department’s May 20 loan limits FAQ both describe the calculation in terms of time.
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