Given all the financial pressure on colleges and universities, how do you know if your child’s school is in a solid position? I know that colleges are losing money across the board, but is there an endowment level that signifies security, and if so, what is that cutoff?
Moody’s does a credit rating for all public and private universities.
Many schools also will publish their financial reports.
I also think that looking at old news releases and even the school’s campus paper can give clues.