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Colleges Turn to Digitized Payments to Simplify the Back-to-School Process
Digital Payments // September 16, 2021

It’s hard to quantify precisely, but COVID-19 clearly took a toll on enrollment at schools and colleges over the past few semesters. A combination of health concerns, remote learning restrictions, and campus closures kept many students from returning to campus and dealt a financial blow...

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Colleges Turn to Digitized Payments to Simplify the Back-to-School Process

September 16, 2021
It’s hard to quantify precisely, but COVID-19 clearly took a toll on enrollment at schools and colleges over the past few semesters. A combination of health concerns, remote learning restrictions, and campus closures kept many students from returning to campus and dealt a financial blow to the schools themselves, prompting the higher ed industry to […]

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Earnest and Nova Credit Team to Offer Loans for International Students

July 17, 2023
FinTech Earnest has teamed with Nova Credit to offer private student loans for international students. The partnership, announced Monday (July 17), is happening at a time when foreign-born students make up nearly 5% of the student population at U.S. colleges and universities, the two companies said in a news release. “Beyond being accepted to these institutions, financing their study overseas is […]