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What refinancing a federal loan buys, and what it sellsThe rate is the easy half. What a refinance sells is the part no calculator can price, including this one.
Too rich for aid, too poor for stickerThe formula expects $42,000 a year from a $200,000 family, per child in college. Here is the whole ladder, and what to do about your rung of it.
What a college ROI ranking cannot tell youThe famous rankings answer which schools' students earned the most. They cannot answer whether your degree, at your school, on your loan, is worth it.
You took the Interest Profiler. Now price the list.The Profiler answers which careers fit you. The next question is what each one costs to reach, and that answer changes the list.
Still deciding what you want to be? Start with the O*NET Interest Profiler, the federal government's free interest assessment. It tells you which careers fit you. This site tells you what each one costs to reach, and when it pays off.
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The degree sets the debt, the specialty sets the payThirty-one careers, eight debt figures. What you borrow varies about twice over. What it earns you varies more than six times.
A degree is not worth one numberDegree holders earn $14,000 more a year at 21 and $49,000 more at 41. That gap only begins after $93,000 the other side had already banked, and this is a cross section rather than a lifetime.
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