College

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  30 Best Paying College Majors: 2013

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  June 17, 2013

  Looking for the big payday after college? The rankings of these majors are based on data collected from 1,000 universities and graduates with bachelor’s degrees.

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  Top 10 Biggest 529 College Savings Plans: 2013

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  June 5, 2013

  Here are the 10 biggest 529 college savings plans by AUM, asset growth and market share, as compiled by the Financial Research Corp.

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  Top 25 Colleges for Best Return on Investment: 2013

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  May 27, 2013

  Out of 1,511 schools studied, these 25 had the greatest payoff for graduates over the course of a 30-year career.

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  Top 30 Colleges for Highest Starting Salaries: 2013

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  May 21, 2013

  Out of 1,058 colleges surveyed, graduates of these schools grabbed the biggest starting salaries from their first jobs.

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  Is College Worth It?

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 8, 2013

  Former Education Secretary William Bennett's new book questioning the value of college is flying off the shelves, while researchers jokingly predict universities will soon offer a master’s in janitorial studies.

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  Top 10 Richest Colleges for 2012—The Biggest Endowments

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  April 2, 2013

  After a big year in 2011, these 10 colleges’ funds rose at a much slower rate last year.

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  Finding Financial Crisis Culprits; Selling Advisors Like iPhones: May Research—Slideshow

  By Editorial Staff  |  April 27, 2012

  Research magazine's May cover story, "Finding the Culprits," focuses on derivatives expert Janet Tavakoli and her hard-hitting analysis of who and what caused the financial crisis.

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  A Strategy for Affording College

  By Kent Smetters  |  April 25, 2012

  Faced with massive budget deficits, state legislators across the country are looking to chop college education funding to fill the gaps.

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  6 Tips to Cope With Boomerang Generation and End of Empty Nest

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  January 17, 2012

  One of the casualties of the economic crisis has been parents’ much-anticipated empty nest, or rather lack of it. It’s a refrain that is becoming all too familiar across the U.S.