{"id":821,"date":"2017-05-03T11:44:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=821"},"modified":"2017-09-21T10:13:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T14:13:54","slug":"survey-college-grads-concerned-about-finances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/05\/03\/survey-college-grads-concerned-about-finances\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: College Grads Concerned about Finances"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-824\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/grad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-824\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/grad.jpg\" alt=\"iStock\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/grad.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/grad-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Graduation is fast-approaching, and a new national survey suggests that college seniors are worried about money.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers with <a href=\"http:\/\/next.bncollege.com\/category\/college-insights\/\">Barnes &amp; Noble College<\/a> interviewed 312 graduating seniors in April. Here\u2019s what they found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Salary is important to job-seeking graduates, with 44 percent of respondents citing pay as their top priority in the job hunt.<\/li>\n<li>Forty-eight percent of respondents are worried about student loans.<\/li>\n<li>And 68 percent of students listed \u201cearning enough money\u201d as a top concern.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps due to those pressures, many seniors say they will live with family after graduation, with 35 percent of respondents planning to move back home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/next.bncollege.com\/category\/college-insights\/\">View survey results<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/View-survey-results.pdf\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/04\/05\/students-share-your-college-essay-with-the-new-york-times\/mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduation is fast-approaching, and a new national survey suggests that college seniors are worried about money. Researchers with Barnes &amp; Noble College interviewed 312 graduating seniors in April. Here\u2019s what they found: Salary is important to job-seeking graduates, with 44 percent of respondents citing pay as their top priority in the job hunt. Forty-eight percent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/05\/03\/survey-college-grads-concerned-about-finances\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Survey: College Grads Concerned about Finances<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,7],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-completion","category-cost-of-college","tag-student-loans"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-df","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}