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07/29/2021

Learn how a college student's financial health can have an impact on their college achievements and how it can be one of the biggest factors to their success.

For many students, college is their first opportunity to set their own schedule, take responsibility, and pay bills. It is a lot to handle. Besides academics, a student’s financial health and literacy may be the biggest factor to their success.

07/27/2021

We are excited to be partnered with the HBCU Community Development Action Coalition to provide student financial wellness education to historically Black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions!

Leading financial wellness company iGrad has partnered with the HBCU Community Development Action Coalition to provide student financial wellness education to historically Black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions.

12/01/2020

Without a doubt, institutes of higher learning are perfectly aligned to help their students learn about and achieve financial wellness by offering a financial wellness program. While such programs should focus on helping students understand the impact of student loans, they can also provide these young adults with the needed education to make wise financial decisions throughout the rest of their lives.

Unless you measure the success of your financial wellness program, you will never know if the program is really helping your students.

Without a doubt, institutes of higher learning are perfectly aligned to help their students learn about and achieve financial wellness by offering financial wellness programs.

09/29/2020

College students are under more stress than ever, with a big stressor being finances. Colleges and universities can help students reduce financial stress and increase graduation rates and overall student success through offering a student financial wellness program. Learn how your university can start taking the steps towards integrating a financial wellness program for your students.

A primary way that colleges and universities can reduce financial stress is through student financial wellness programs, which subsequently can increase graduation rates and overall student success.

08/04/2020

As the presidential election goes into full swing, we are likely to hear many proposals about tuition-free college and more money for federal grant programs but we aren't likely to hear a serious discussion about graduate school debt.

The Center for American Progress hopes to change that by addressing the issues that affect the cost of graduate school and the subsequent loans taken by students pursuing these degrees. In addition to their suggestions to lower grad school debt, offering a student financial wellbeing program can help students assess the need for debt and determine if the benefits outweigh the costs.

Offering a student financial wellbeing program can help students assess the need for debt and determine if the benefits outweigh the costs.

04/01/2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, it is affecting everyone globally. The pandemic is not only a potential threat to students’ health, but can also create stress around school, their future careers, student loans, and finances. With so much uncertainty in the air, iGrad is here to help your students navigate this tough time with free financial wellness resources.

Learn how to get free financial wellness resources for your students to help them handle financial struggles faced during the coronavirus pandemic

03/13/2020

COVID-19, more commonly known as Coronavirus, is affecting the world at large. While most are worried about the impact on their health, the pandemic could also impact your finances....

Oh, not this too.

03/06/2020

Americans 60 and older are becoming the fastest-growing group of student loan borrowers. This is largely due to the fact that many parents have taken out loans for their children. Many are struggling to pay off these debts and many more are pushing off retirement for years in an attempt to pay them off before they retire.

Americans older than 60 are the fastest-growing group of college loan debtors — the vast majority of them borrowing for others — a consumer agency says.

02/14/2020

While higher college enrollment rates and rising tuition costs used to be the main reason for growing student loan balances, that is no longer is the case. The primary driver now is slow loan repayments...

A new report finds that slow loan repayment is the main factor behind growing student loan balances.

01/22/2020

Student loan debt is consuming many American's household budgets.This is largely due to the fact that student loan bills have increased over time but incomes have not. This is resulting in sacrifices that borrowers have to make like putting off buying a home or delaying saving for retirement in order to pay off debt.

A handful of people with student debt, from a copy writer in Morehead, Kentucky, to an English professor in Yakima, Washington, provided CNBC with a snapshot of their budgets.

01/08/2020

If you have struggles with budgeting in the past, make 2020 your year that you get on track with your finances! Learn what the most skilled budgeters practice in order to reach their short and long term financial goals!

You'll definitely appreciate No. 6.

01/01/2020

Happy New Year!