Date with an Author: Ron Lieber, Author of “The Price You Pay for College”

From the hugely popular New York Times “Your Money” columnist and author of the bestselling The Opposite of Spoiled, comes a deeply reported and emotionally honest approach to the biggest financial decision families will ever make: what to pay for college.

Sending a teenager to a flagship state university for four years of on-campus living costs more than $100,000 in many parts of the United States. Meanwhile, families of freshmen attending scores of selective private colleges will spend triple that―over $300,000.

With the same passion, smarts, and humor that infuses his hugely popular personal finance column in the New York Times, Ron Lieber’s anticipated new book, The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Roadmap for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make, offers families a much-needed guide to help them navigate this difficult and often confusing journey, which has only been compounded by a global pandemic and the resulting chaos in higher education.