verybody knows college is expensive. In fact, the cost of higher education has frequently been in the spotlight in recent years.
You can find tons of news stories about grads faced with student debt that takes decades to pay off. But it doesn’t have to be that
way. An approach followed by cost- conscious students across the coun- try is to start at a highly affordable school then transfer to a more ex- pensive one. And that option seems to be growing more popular as tu- ition rises.
“The cost of a higher education continues to increase,” says Monica Castaneda, VP of Student Affairs at Glendale Community College in Ari- zona. “If you decide to attend a com- munity college for two years and