There’s only so much one Broke Grad Student can write about money saving advice for college students in his spare time. Fortunately, there are tens/hundreds/thousands/millions of thousands/millions of other people writing about the exact same thing. The biggest challenge is sorting through all of the crap out there, and finding articles that are actually worth reading. Well, today I’m going to be your crap filter, because here are over 50 great tips, ideas, and resources on saving money for college students (listed in a particularly random order).
- Go to College Without Going Into Debt: An Example at Consumerism Commentary
- Ten Tips for Realistic Money Management In College – Without The Nonsense at The Simple Dollar
- Save Money By Making Your Own Beer at Lazy Man and Money
- How To Save Money In College at CampusGrotto
- Ask the Readers: Can College Students Save Money? at Get Rich Slowly
- 118 Ways to Save Money in College
- 7 Ways To Get A College Degree For Less at Moolanomy
- 5 Ways to Save Money in College at Grad Money Matters
- College Money-Saving Tips at Generation X Finance
- Saving Money On My Wife’s College Textbooks at My Two Dollars
- 27 Money Tips for College Students at Get Rich Slowly
- Cash & College at The Simple Dollar
- College Money Matters at Mrs. Micah
- Things I Wish I Knew When I Was 18 at beingfrugal.net
- Go to College Without Going Into Debt: Impossible? at Consumerism Commentary
- 10 Ways for College Students to Cut Costs Where It Counts at Grad Money Matters
- How To Stretch Your Money in College and Grad School
- College Grad Money Guide at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity
- Tips on how to save money at That College Kid
- College Money Network
- 50 Smart and Easy Ways to Save Money in College at Surviving College Life
- Save Money Early In The Semester at College Students Rule!
- Don’t get over-educated at Mighty Bargain Hunter
- Thoughts on Minimizing Debt While in College at fivecentnickel.com
- Five Ways to Reduce College Costs at Free Money Finance
- 10 Wacky Ways To Eat Cheap In College at My Money Blog
- Financial Advice for the High School Graduate at Cash Money Life
- If I’d Know Then What I Know Now at Single Guy Money
- Best Financial Move in College at plonkee money
- My 5 Biggest Money Mistakes at Bible Money Matters
- 10 Ways to Reduce College Costs at Free Money Finance
- 7 Mistakes I Made When I Went to College at Moolanomy
- What I Did Right During College at Mrs. Micah
- Money Tips for the Twenty Something Crowd at Cash Money Life
- Do not ask and you shall not receive at MFA or Bust
- Money Advice for the College Student at Poorer Than You
- Getting the Most Financial Aid at Green Panda Treehouse
- Why College is CHEAP! at My Money Blog
- Free College Tuition To Soothe The Middle Class Pinch at The Digerati Life
- College Costs at Mapgirl’s Fiscal Challenge
- Debt Payoff at Give Me Back My Five Bucks
- 12 Tips for Saving Money in College at Clever Dude
- Wise Financial Decisions In College at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…
- Top Money Saving Tips for College Freshmen
- Save Money on Hobbies at Lazy Man and Money
- How To Afford College at LifeSpy
- Paying For Education With Cash at Money Crashers
- The Benefits of Delayed Gratification at Gather Little By Little
- Pragmatic Personal Finance Tips for College Students at An English Major’s Money
- How I manage to cut back on dining out costs at Well-Heeled, with a mission
- How Do You Save Money On Beer? at Make Love, Not Debt
- Looking to Attend College for Free? Try Harvard at The Dough Roller
- Some people think there’s only a limited amount of money at I Will Teach You To Be Rich
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Great resource! Thanks for being an awesome crap filter.
Wow, what a list. Thank you for including my articles in there also.
Great list and resource, thanks for including my article!
Thanks for including me, but FYI, my article was aimed mostly at private primary and secondary education and not so much about college.
The articles I wrote which are much more geared to college students are about how to go drinking or clubbing cheaply.
Hey, glad you enjoyed my tip list! Thanks for the link. : )
One more tip for college students to remember: When you’re taking out student loans, federal ones are almost always cheaper and safer than private loans, so make sure you know which one you’re getting!
mapgirl: Thanks for clearing that up and providing some more relevant links
I’ve also updated my list to link to your article on college costs.
Great list! Thanks for including my post!
You have a good idea here. Consider writing your next blog about how to simply AVOID debt ( as we all know, it’s hard as heck to save in this day and age)!
There’s enough information to read here and ponder upon for a whole semester LOL
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Thanks!
Ciprian, http://financialcourseblog.com/
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Great ressources! Thank you for sharing!
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Helping college students save money is why I created http://www.StudentBookTrades.com. An easy way to find college textbooks that other students have already completed courses for. Students are automatically matched with each other to trade textbooks for classes they have completed. Trade, Swap, sell, or buy college textbooks from other students. Search the book database, contact the student at your home campus, city, state, or nationwide about the book and save money.
Thanks for the link! not sure why i didn’t see this article the first time around!
The best way to save money on textbooks is to try to rent them for free at the library. If you can’t find your textbook at the library, try renting them through chegg.com. I have found that they are the cheapest and they are even offering free priority shipping through December 2009. You can also save 5% with promo code: CC107501
This is very educative and loaded with insightful information. This is the best article I have ever read! It teaches everything a student needs to be aware of.
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