Home > All Posts

Urban Institute’s New Website Explores What College Affordability Actually Means

April 12, 2017

Share this

What does college affordability mean? Is affordability the same for all students? A new website from the Urban Institute, with support from the Lumina Foundation, serves as a hub of data and information to answer these questions.

Through interactive data visualizations, Sandy Baum, Martha Johnson and Victoria Lee break down various aspects of college affordability, including the cost of educating students, expenses to consider when planning for college, financial aid, and employment and debt repayment after college.

The website also includes profiles of students to show how college affordability differs by socioeconomic and dependency status.

To learn more, please see the Understanding College Affordability website.

If you have any questions or comments about this blog post, please contact us.

Topics:

Keep Reading

How Should We Think About College Affordability?

Before colleges can constructively evaluate and improve their pricing and financial aid policies, they should have a solid understanding of what should go into determining how realistic it is for students and families in different circumstances to pay for the education offered, writes the Urban Institute’s Sandy Baum.

May 16, 2017

The Success of College Unbound

Four higher education leaders look at College Unbound’s learner-centered, student-driven approach to higher education and the institution’s 10-year journey through regional accreditation.

November 13, 2019

A College Unbound

In 2015, Robert L. Carothers joined the board of College Unbound after stepping down from serving as the president at the University of Rhode Island for 18 years. Most of the students came thinking of themselves as having failed, he writes, but College Unbound “taught them to reframe failure and to see that their lives had been about learning, even if they could not see it.”

November 13, 2019