Comments on: Should College Students Pay For Their Education? http://www.allfinancialmatters.net/18/should-college-students-pay-for-their-education/ Anything and Everything Money Related Sat, 23 Jul 2011 07:35:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jeff Frese http://www.allfinancialmatters.net/18/should-college-students-pay-for-their-education/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Jeff Frese Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:47:40 +0000 http://www.allfinancialmatters.net/?p=18#comment-47 Graduating from college with $100,000 in debt is awful. I have experienced this as have many of my friends. 529s did not exist when I was a child, but they are a great option. If you invest $200 a month for a newborn until college, that should get you about 60 percent of the four-year cost of a public university and 25 percent of an average private college. I wrote an article about this recently http://www.giftingforcollege.com/?p=10 Graduating from college with $100,000 in debt is awful. I have experienced this as have many of my friends. 529s did not exist when I was a child, but they are a great option.

If you invest $200 a month for a newborn until college, that should get you about 60 percent of the four-year cost of a public university and 25 percent of an average private college.

I wrote an article about this recently http://www.giftingforcollege.com/?p=10

]]>