Tag: LendEdu
R.I. student-debt default rate 7th lowest in U.S.
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island had the seventh-lowest share of student debt defaulters in the nation in fiscal 2017, according to a new report from...
R.I. has second-highest lottery spend per capita in nation
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Islanders spent the second most on the lottery per capita in the nation, behind only Massachusetts, in 2018, according to a...
Report: R.I. had fastest drop in median home value from 2010-2018...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island had the largest percent drop of median home values of any state and Washington, D.C., from 2010 to 2018, according...
LendEdu: Average student-loan debt, payments in R.I., Mass. among highest in...
PROVIDENCE – If you have student-loan debt in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, your monthly payments are likely to be among the highest in the...
Report: PC ranks highest in R.I. for financial aid in ’17-’18...
PROVIDENCE – Providence College ranks highest for financial aid among colleges in Rhode Island, in a LendEdu report released this week.
The report weighed need-based...
LendEdu: Brown University to make $2.5M off of declined applications
PROVIDENCE – Brown University is projected to make around $2.5 million in revenue off of declined applications from prospective students seeking admission to the...
Report: R.I. student loan default rate ranks No. 4 lowest in...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island had the fourth-lowest student loan default rate in the United States at 6.29% in fiscal year 2016, according to a...
Study: 20% of college students face ‘dangerous’ debt-to-income ratios
PROVIDENCE – Nearly 1 in 5 college students will have future debt-to-income ratios “approaching dangerous levels” just from student loans after graduating and entering...
Report: Private market for student loans is ‘exploding’
PROVIDENCE – The private market for student loans has “exploded” in recent years, as there is now about $102 million in private student loan...
R.I. has second-highest spending per capita on lottery in 2017
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Islanders spent $502.01 on the lottery per capita in 2017, the second-highest amount in the nation only to Massachusetts, according to...