Author: Tiffany Camhi

Catch up on what you missed with our Education newsletter, sent weekly. This month, the U.S. Department of Education began rolling out a new accountability test that most colleges and universities will soon have to pass. The test itself is simple: If an undergraduate program’s graduates don’t earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. The same goes for any graduate program whose graduates earn less than someone with only a bachelor’s degree. “If a program cannot show that it leaves its graduates financially better off than if they…