Pay for your own master's degree in puppetry

Don't ask taxpayers to foot the bill. - Joanne Jacobs

• Under the new Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS), students won't be able to get federal loans for "undergraduate programs whose graduates cannot out-earn a typical high school diploma holder and graduate programs whose alumni cannot beat a typical bachelor’s holder...
• "If a program cannot show that it leaves its graduates financially better off than if they had never enrolled, it should not be underwritten by federal taxpayers," said Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent.

Nationwide, "roughly 31 percent of students are enrolled in programs that are a losing bet financially," Cartwright notes...