‘Very High’ Debt Burden Lowers Amherst College’s AAA Bond Rating
The elite college's rating was lowered to AA+, which means it still has a strong capacity to meet its financial obligations, according to Standard & Poor's.
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The elite college's rating was lowered to AA+, which means it still has a strong capacity to meet its financial obligations, according to Standard & Poor's.
MOOC may be a silly-sounding acronym, but this new breed of online classes is shaking up the higher education world in ways that could be good for cash-strapped students and terrible for cash-strapped colleges.
College campuses are becoming incubators for startups, offering encouragement in the form of classes to nurture young dreamers. This explains the influx of 21-year-olds making millions of dollars in investment before they can legally pop a beer.
For Bill Zandi, the son of Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi, enrolling as a student at a prestigious private institution like Wake Forest University was less surprising than the student's choice of major: philosophy.