Let’s pretend four college graduates land engineering jobs and starting salaries of $60K a year, but each leave college with varying amounts of student loan debt. In this episode we do the math and analyze quality of life for each of these students right after graduation and decades later, and the results are staggering.

In light of the current college scandals, this episode invites parents to reflect on their own expectations of their children and how they may be pushing their own agendas in unhealthy ways.

What factors contributed to the nation's student loan crisis? Here we investigate the interplay between government regulation, the rising price of tuition, and personal choice and how it's brought us to this critical point in our history.

What if your family has money for you to attend college but instead of paying for school they invest it in the S&P? You'd be surprised by the returns we uncover in this episode.

How do you get through college without debt if you have no financial support from your family? In this episode we talk about options for students facing this challenge.

Just how much does it matter where you attend college? We examine several factors in assessing importance of school choice and discuss the recent Pew research on life satisfaction after college, which may be surprising.

Parents of students in college are taking on more and more debt for their children and it's crushing their retirement dreams. In this episode we address the importance of honest conversations about family finances, the value proposition of a college education, and other ways for students to pursue their dreams.

Here we address creative ways to mitigate the pain of student loan debt if you're finished with college or have already taken on debt.

Is it possible to get a college degree without going into debt if you don't have any scholarships? In this episode we talk about four possible student scenarios and one where you can actually graduate from university without taking out student loans but instead leave with money in your pocket.

Continuing our student loan series, we invite you to ask yourself if college is the right choice for you, especially if you're not sure of what you want to study. We also look at different types of intelligences, fields that don't require a degree, and the importance of finding a mentor in your field of interest.

In this student loan series, we do the Real Math and calculate just how much a student will have to work and how long it will take a to repay their loans into adulthood. We use a real life example and then offer some easy ways to hack the college system and save at least a third of the cost.