The damaging pace of tuition inflation
The cost of a college education continues to grow very rapidly. This, of course, is not a surprise. News of tuition inflation has been prominent. Here in Washington state, the legislature is allowing...
View ArticleGET may soon be gone
Washington’s Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) program has generated a bit of concern recently due to speculation that budget uncertainty might force the program to be ended. While this is not a...
View ArticleGET unit price takes huge leap
As a follow-up to my September 8 column in The News Tribune (see below), here is some more detail about the new unit price to participate in Washington’s Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) program....
View ArticleUniversity tuition sprints way ahead of expectations
We’ve written a few times about college tuition and the Washington Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) savings program. An interesting follow-up note to the 2011-12 spike in the price of GET units comes...
View ArticleGET program sets new unit rate at $172, deals with $527 million shortfall
The Washington state Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) program has set its unit price for 2012-13 at $172. The increase from last year’s $163 unit price is surprisingly low – 5.5%. This comes after a...
View ArticleGET requires understanding premium, investing early
The Washington state Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) program opened its annual enrollment period November 1 with a new per unit price of $172. We’ve written here, here and here about historical rate...
View ArticleGET unit value freezes along with tuition
The Washington Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) program has decided to keep the 2013-2014 unit payout rate the same as the rate for the 2012-2013 school year ($117.82 per unit). The lack of an...
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