Special Reports

Colleges to Use 'Shopping Sheet' to Help Make Costs More Transparent

The colleges, including higher education systems from four states -- Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Texas -- will provide a version of the one-page college "shopping sheet" developed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to inform students about what they will pay for a year of college. The sheet, intended to help students and parents compare colleges using standardized data, will include the price of a year of college, including tuition, fees and other costs; the net price after ...