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Financial Education Resources
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Programs & Websites
- 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy. American Institute of CPAs.
- AZ Earn to Learn: Invest in College Success. ASU, Northern Arizona, University of Arizona.
- Cash Course. National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE).
- Love Your Money. FINRA and the University of Tennessee Extension.
- EducationCents: Making Sense of Your Finances. Colorado Department of Higher Education.
- Financial Workshop Kits: College Series. National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE).
- Life Skills. USA Funds.
- My College Money Plan. Wichita State.
- Money Skill Financial Literacy Course. AFSA Education Foundation.
- $ALT. American Student Assistance.
- APLUS (Arizona Pathways to Life Success). University of Arizona.
- Common Sense. Georgetown University.
- CyGold. Iowa State University.
- Financial Literacy. Georgia State.
- Financial Literacy Program. University of Hawaii at Manoa.
- I OTTO Know This. Syracuse University.
- Personal Finance at Duke. Duke University.
- Red to Black. Texas Tech.
- Powercat Financial Counseling. Kansas State University.
Data Sets & Surveys
- 2008 Survey of Personal Financial Literacy Among College Students. Jump$tart.
- 2009 Financial Capability Survey. FINRA.
- A Record One-in-five Households Now Owe Student Loan Debt. R. Fry
- College Scorecard. US Department of Education.
- Debt at Graduation for Graduate Students with Geometric Interpolation/Projection. M. Kantrowitz.
- Distribution of doctorate recipients' sources of financial support, by sex and broad field of study: 2011. Survey of Earned Doctorates.
- Doctorate recipients' primary source of financial support, by broad field of study, sex, citizenship, and race/ethnicity: 2011. Survey of Earned Doctorates.
- Doctorate recipients' sources of financial support, by sex and broad field of study: 2011. Survey of Earned Doctorates.
- Education-related debt of doctorate recipients, by broad field of study: 2011. Survey of Earned Doctorates.
- Education-related debt of doctorate recipients, by sex, citizenship, and race/ethnicity: 2011. Survey of Earned Doctorates.
- 2012 Financial Capability Survey. FINRA.
- Grad School Calculator. LearnVe$t.
- Grading Student Loans. Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
- Graduate education-related debt of doctorate recipients, by broad field of study: 2002-11. Survey of Earned Doctorates.
- Know Before You Owe. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
- Lost Without a Map: A Survey about Students' Experiences Navigating the Financial Aid Process. NERA and Young Invincibles. (H. Whitsett and R. O'Sullivan).
- National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE).
- NCES College Navigator.
- Paying for College. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
- Policy Brief: How Much are College Students Borrowing. CollegeBoard.
- Student Loan Debt History. Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Description: Charts about student loan debt by age.
- Student Loan Debt Statistics. American Student Assistance.
- Survey of Consumer Finances. Federal Reserve.
- The 2012 Consumer Financial Literacy Survey. Harris Interactive, Inc.
- The 2012 Inside Higher Ed Survey of College and University Admissions Directors. Inside Higher Ed.
- The Condition of Education 2011: Price of Graduate and First-Professional Attendance. U.S. Department of Education.
- The Financial Literacy of Young American Adults: Results of the 2008 National Jump$tart Coalition Survey of High School Seniors and College Students. M. Lewis.
- Trends in Community College Education; Enrollment, Prices, Student Aid, and Debt Levels. S. Baum and P. Steele.
- Trends in For-Profit Postsecondary Education: Enrollment, Prices, Student Aid and Outcomes. S. Baum and K. Payea.
- Trends in Higher Education: Who Borrows Most. S. Baum and P. Steele.
- Trends in Student Aid 2011. CollegeBoard.
- Trends in Student Aid 2012. CollegeBoard.
- US citizen and permanent resident doctorate recipients with graduate-school debt, by broad field of study and race/ethnicity: 2011. Survey of Earned Doctorates.
- Who Graduates College with Six-Figure Student Loan Debt? M. Kantrowitz.
Reports
- Annual Report of the CFPB Student Loan Ombudsman. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
- Closing the Gap Between Knowledge and Behavior; Turning Education into Action. National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE).
- Cultivating Positive Financial Attitudes and Behaviors for Healthy Adulthood. S. Shim, J. Serido and J. Xiao (APLUS Wave 1 Final).
- Denied: The Impact of Student Debt on the Ability to Buy A House. Young Invincibles. (J. Mishory and R. Sullivan).
- Economic Impact Study: Financial Well-Being, Coping Behaviors and Trust among Young Adults. S. Shim and J. Serido (APLUS Wave 1.5 Final).
- Safety Net or Windfall: Examining Changes to Income-Based Repayment for Federal Student Loans. New America Foundation (J. Delisle and A. Holt).
- Financial Capability Now: Action Plan for Developing a Campus Financial Education Program. Inceptia (K. Trombitas).
- Financial Experiences and Behaviors Among Women. Prudential.
- Financial Management Practices of College Students from States with Varying Financial Education mandates. M. Gutter. (NEFE).
- Financial Stress. Inceptia (K. Trombitas).
- Hard Times: College Majors, Unemployment and Earnings. A. Carnevale, B. Cheah, and J. Strohl.
- Is College Worth It? Pew Research Center (P. Taylor et. al.).
- Measuring the Impact of a Financial Education Curriculum on Student Attitudes and Behavior. M. Gutter and C. Renner.
- Money Matters on Campus: How Early Attitudes and Behaviors Affect the Financial Decisions of First-Year College Students. Conducted by EverFi and sponsored by Higher One.
- Snapshot of Financial Education Programming: How Schools Approach Student Success. Inceptia (K. Trombitas).
- Student Debt and the Class of 2011. The Project on Student Debt. (M. Reed and D. Cochrane).
- Student Loans: Overview and Issues. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. (K. Edmiston, L. Brooks, and S. Shepelwich).
- Using Social Media, Social Marketing and Brain Research to Improve the Design and Delivery of Financial Education. FINRA.
- What's it Worth: The Economic Value of College Majors. A. Carnevale, J. Strohl, and M. Melton.
- Young Adults' Financial Capability. S. Shim and J. Serido (APLUS Wave 2).
Articles
- An Analysis of Personal Financial Literacy Among College Students. H. Chen and R. Volpe.
- Advancing or Hindering the Next Generation? A Look at Financial Aid for Minority Graduate Students. P. Boyer and B. Butner.
- Changing College Students' Financial Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior through Seminar Participation. L. Borden, S. Lee, J. Serido and D. Collins.
- College Students and Financial Literacy: What they Know and What We Need to Learn. Cude et al.
- Debt Education: Bad for the Young, Bad for America. J. Williams.
- Debt Literacy, Financial Experiences, and Over-indebtedness. A. Lusardi and P. Tufano.
- Do Recent College Graduates Regret the Amount of Funds Borrowed for Educational Purposes. E. Manton and D. English.
- Educational Debt Burden Among Student Borrowers: An Analysis of the Baccalaureate & Beyond Panel. D. Price.
- Financial Socialization Family Pathways: Reflections from College Students' Narratives. C. Solheim, V. Zuiker, and P. Levchenko.
- Financial Literacy among the Young. A. Lusardi, O. Mitchell, and V. Curto.
- Financial Literacy: What Works? How Could it be More Effective? W. Gale and R. Levine.
- Graduating a Debtor Nation: Shameless Confessions of a Dissenting Citizen. L. Guerra.
- How Much Debt is Too Much? Defining Benchmarks for Manageable Student Debt. S. Baum and S. Schwartz.
- How Undergraduate Loan Debt Affects Application and Enrollment in Graduate or First Professional School. C. M. Millett.
- Teach Workers About the Perils of Debt. A. Lusardi and P. Tufano.
- The Effect of Loans on Time to Doctorate Degree. O. Kim.
- The Student Debt Dilemma: Debt Aversion as a Barrier to College Access. P. Burdman.
- The Student Loan Scandal. W. Beaver.
- Which Students Are More Likely to Experience Financial Socialization Opportunities? Exploring the Relationship between Financial Behaviors and Financial Well-Being of College Students. M. Gutter, Z. Copur, and S. Garrison.
- What Matters in Student Loan Default? A Review of the Research Literature. J. Gross, O. Cekic, D. Hossler, and N. Hillman.
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