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COLLEGE SAVINGS 101

College Savings 101

In this section you will find lots of help in understanding and planning for your child's future college expenses. Everything here is free.

A multi-part tutorial on the basics of college savings to get you started in the right direction.

Determine your college savings goals with a simple, yet powerful, college cost calculator.

Federal School Code Lookup gives you an easy way to determine if a particular U.S. or international school qualifies for 529 and Coverdell ESA purposes.

Summarizes and compares the features of 529 plans, ESAs, UTMAs, IRAs, and education savings bonds.

Grandparents and 529 plans were made for each other. Here we explain why.

Here we provide some of our best ideas on how to save and pay for college using 529 plans and other vehicles.

Links to useful and recent articles about college savings we've found in the media.

See how others think and act. We place a new poll on our home page every so often.

The '529 Guru' offers his random thoughts.