If your employer offers tuition assistance through Guild, you have access to one of the most generous education benefit ecosystems in the country: more than 1,600 programs across a network of accredited universities, with tuition flowing directly from your employer to the school in most cases. The decision that...
Read MoreMore 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,...
Read MoreFor all of the first-class treatment applicants give to their Common App essay, the Common App Activities Section is all too often relegated to steerage. If antiquated steamship analogies do little for you, a more apropos comparison might present the essay as the mean, attention-hogging prom queen in a...
Read MorePrior to the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, rarely did a single month pass without another well-known college or university making headlines by announcing that it would no longer require applicants to submit standardized test scores. This movement, known as going “test-optional,” actually began almost 50 years...
Read MoreAt 331 colleges, low-income students graduate at higher rates than their wealthier peers. The data shows where the pattern holds, where it reverses, and what families should ask before they choose a school. Higher education carries a persistent assumption that low-income students struggle more than their peers to finish...
Read MoreTwo 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...
Read MoreInvestment banking continues to be one of the most sought-after career paths for ambitious college graduates, offering exceptional compensation packages and accelerated professional development opportunities. Entry-level investment banking analysts at top firms typically receive total compensation exceeding $150,000, including base salary and bonuses. Through analysis of LinkedIn data from...
Read MoreWhy the students everyone else is ignoring may hold the strongest admissions hand. If you’re a high school student who lights up over Latin verb conjugations, who reads philosophy for fun, or who chose to study Mandarin when everyone else signed up for AP Computer Science, you’ve probably heard...
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