Denise Sauerteig, M.A.'s Blog

Paying for a college education can be daunting, especially as tuition costs rise year after year. While many parents try to start saving for their child’s projected college costs early on, almost two-thirds of parents have no education savings by the time their child is in high school. Whether your own children have just graduated from preschool or high school, it’s not too late to think about college finances.

Now that the economy has taken a turn for the worst, you might be worried that trying to figure out how to pay for your kids’ higher education costs is taking a back seat to meeting mortgage payments, looking for a new job, or just trying to make ends meet.

Fear not – Education.com has published a new special edition just for you: College Financing: Pay for College in Today’s Economy. To put together the ultimate resource on college financing, we enlisted the help of leading college financing expert, Mark Kantrowitz, who is the publisher of the award-winning FinAid and FastWeb websites, and president of MK Consulting, Inc. Denise Daniels, Ph.D. and I also serve as editors of the special edition.

The College Financing special edition features over 30 articles on a variety of topics, including figuring out 529 plans, decoding financial aid forms, finding scholarships, and identifying some creative ways to pay for college. If you’re still tackling your own student debt, the College Financing special edition also offers articles to help you ease the burden of your current student loan payments.

We hope you’ll take some time this summer to read through this collection of college financing articles, and let us know what you think. Or use JustAsk to get your college financing questions answered by the Education.com community of experts, parents, students and others with relevant knowledge or personal experiences to share.

As the summer heats up, we’ll continue expanding the College Financing special edition with more articles and tools, so please keep coming back to learn the latest. You might also spend some time reviewing the other new special edition we’ve recently launched: Going to College to learn how to support your child’s transition to college.