A report out this morning says college students are leaving school ever deeper in debt. Students graduated last year owing more than $26,000 on average — up five percent from the year before.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says state college funding should be tied to graduation rates and whether grads get jobs.

Grinnell is a very small liberal arts college in Iowa with a very big endowment: $1.4 billion. Why the financially sound institution is looking at how to control future costs.

The cost of college continues to soar higher and higher. An education expert posits that costs can go down if the public sector pulls out of higher education.

David Lazarus of the Los Angeles Times answers caller questions on personal finance, along with CBS MoneyWatch.com editor-at-large Jill Schlesinger.

The beginning of the new semester means that many students receiving financial aid can look forward to large "refund" checks from their grants or loans.

More college students are living large with gourmet cafeterias and state-of-the-art gyms — but that's not what's driving up college costs.

More upper-middle-class families are borrowing for college so their children can attend high-tuition prestige schools.

The Wall Street Journal finds that upper-middle-income households with annual incomes between $94,000 and $200,000 are finding it more expensive to pay for college.