Finance & Banking · Personal Finance

Paying for College

A 4-year college financing simulation. Decode aid letters, build a year-by-year funding stack from cheapest to most expensive source, project the monthly payment, and defend the prestige-vs.-debt trade-off. Concept 882 of the US Personal Finance cluster.

4 rounds MBA & Masters English, Español
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Who it is for

An intermediate simulation for participants who already know the core concepts of the subject, designed for master's and MBA programmes.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 4 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Choose where Jordan enrolls
  • Outside scholarships ($)
  • Work-study earnings ($)
  • Federal Direct loans ($)
  • Parent PLUS loans ($)
  • Private loans ($)
  • Repayment plan after graduation

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Your Funding Trail

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Personal Finance.

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