Posted on: 07 May 2026
Burger King team members searching for tuition reimbursement face a different situation from employees at companies like Walmart, Starbucks, Chipotle, or Target. Burger King does not offer a traditional tuition reimbursement program at the corporate level. The company’s primary education benefit is the Burger King Scholars Program, a competitive scholarship program administered through the Burger […]
Posted on: 07 May 2026
If your employer offers tuition assistance through InStride, you have access to a curated network of accredited universities, with tuition flowing directly from your employer to the school in most cases. The decision that determines whether your benefit pays off is which school you pick from inside the network. The InStride school catalog is smaller […]
Posted on: 06 May 2026
More than half of U.S. employers offer some form of tuition assistance, and the largest among them now fund full bachelor’s degrees with no out-of-pocket cost to the employee. The benefit has shifted from a quiet HR perk into a category of compensation worth thousands of dollars per year, sometimes more than $20,000 over the […]
Posted on: 01 May 2026
Two Distinct Forces Are Shrinking the Labor Market, and They Require Different Responses Of 744 occupations in our dataset, 228 are projected to decline over the next decade. The decline is not uniform. Some careers are shrinking because artificial intelligence can perform their core tasks. Others are shrinking because the industries themselves are contracting for […]
Posted on: 24 Apr 2026
How to use the College Scorecard’s debt and earnings data to separate colleges that pay off from those that don’t. When families evaluate the cost of college, they tend to focus on the sticker price: tuition, room, board, fees. And when financial aid arrives, the conversation shifts to the out-of-pocket number—what we’ll actually write a […]
Posted on: 17 Apr 2026
The same forces reshaping admissions are pulling selective liberal arts colleges in two very different directions Colby College, a small liberal arts school in Waterville, Maine, received 7,593 applications in 2015. By 2024, that number had surged to 19,187—a 153 percent increase that outpaced Harvard, Stanford, and nearly every research university in the country. Colby’s […]
Posted on: 10 Apr 2026
There is a persistent belief in American higher education that what you study matters more than where you study it. The logic is intuitive: a nursing degree is a nursing degree, an engineering degree is an engineering degree. The credential opens the door, and the labor market takes it from there. The College Scorecard’s field-of-study […]
Posted on: 06 Apr 2026
Advanced Placement (AP) courses from the College Board present high school students with an amazing opportunity to engage in a college-level curriculum. Those who manage to score a 3,4, or 5 on a given exam may earn college credits, effectively saving them thousands of dollars off their future tuition bill. Excelling in AP coursework and […]