More than half a decade after the economic recession hit, students are “savvier shoppers” than ever before, according to the Cooperative Institutional Research Program’s (CIRP) Freshmen Survey. The annual survey is administered through the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) and captures feedback from hundreds of thousands of students entering two- and four-year colleges across the...

More college students are choosing to live with their parents. The assumption that every college freshman moves into a tiny dorm room, leaving parents and old friends behind in one fell swoop isn’t all that accurate. In 2015, 41.5 percent of parents of a college student said their child will be living at home, according to a National Retail Federation survey. Quinn Favilla and her sister,...