Students under 21 can only report personal income, allowances from family members and residual scholarship/grant money after tuition and college expenses. Students over 21 can also report income from ...

Getting a credit card can be a smart financial move for college students to build a strong credit history early in adult life. Over half of college students have a credit card, according to Sallie Mae ...

With more than two decades of experience in higher education, cultural criticism and politics, Horacio Sierra's writing and public speaking aims to demystify higher education and promote the ...

The CARD Act of 2009 states that credit card companies cannot issue cards to people younger than 21 unless they apply in writing and prove they have sufficient income to make minimum payments.

— -- College students juggle plenty: part-time jobs, research projects, dating, keeping up with the family at home. So I'd like to go out on a limb and say most college students are more focused ...

Your student credit card may be one of the first tools you use to begin building your credit history, which makes what you do ...

Melissa Lambarena is a senior writer on the credit cards team at NerdWallet. She has enthusiastically covered credit card-related topics for over nine years. Her prior experience includes nine years ...

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