The average tuition-discounting rate for the fall of 2005 was roughly the same at private colleges as it was two years earlier, according to a survey by the National Association of College and ...

Tuition-discounting rates remained level for the fourth consecutive year in 2001, according to a recent study, but the largest discounts increasingly are being given out by the colleges that can least ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. She writes about strategic financial issues in higher education. Beyond the average tuition discount rate, schools are providing ...

In regulatory cost benefit analysis the discount rate translates future value to present terms. Regulatory costs, such as investments in pollution control equipment or redesigning nutrition labels, ...