Flutterwave has launched a product to help African students pay school fees when studying abroad and at home. The new payment product, Tuition, will enable African users to conveniently pay fees to educational institutions both within Africa and overseas by using their local currencies, the payments technology...
Colleges face a new financial hurdle: employers dropping degree requirements for prospective hires. Higher learning institutions are battling unprecedented pressure to maintain enrollment numbers. A tight labor market plus prolonged inflation has stressed the already-inefficient legacy payments system burdening many colleges. And there is a...
PYMNTS interviewed Adam McDonald, president at TouchNet, on how the company is helping colleges and universities simplify and modernize their payments infrastructure — At a time when businesses everywhere are adapting to meet customers’ increasing expectations for digital payment methods and technology-driven interactions, institutions of...
Payments are both an integral and a problematic part of higher education. They are integral because of how costly college is. The average annual cost of tuition during the 2021-2022 school year at a public four-year university stood at $10,740 for in-state students and $27,650...
July 31, 2020
Universities are all about giving students learning experiences, but having one themselves isn’t usually standard operating procedure. Ever since schools worldwide began shutting their campuses due to the pandemic, nothing in higher education has been normal, as Sharon Butler, executive vice president of global education at Flywire, told Karen Webster. Butler, whose firm serves as […]
October 11, 2019
Pay local — on a global scale. To that end, Flywire said at the end of last month that it has partnered with JCB International in a relationship that provides...
August 30, 2019
Here’s a thought as the unofficial end of summer draws near and a new decade looms: Pay more attention to Vietnam. No doubt you already are, but maybe pay even...
August 01, 2019
Call it the $1.6 trillion challenge. College is a rite of passage for some, a dream for others and a financial challenge for just about everyone who strives for a...
February 12, 2024
Mia Share has raised $6.5 million in a seed round to grow its platform that streamlines digital payment options for trade and technical schools. The firm will use the new capital to add product features, onboard new users and expand its customer service team, Mia Share said in a Monday (Feb. 12) press release emailed to […]
July 11, 2023
Flutterwave has launched a product to help African students pay school fees when studying abroad and at home. The new payment product, Tuition, will enable African users to conveniently pay fees to...
November 10, 2021
Payitoff, an automated student loan management company serving the FinTech sector, has generated $8.5 million in a seed round, according to a Wednesday (Nov. 10) press release. Led by Lightspeed...
October 15, 2020
Enrollment at U.S. colleges and universities fell sharply this fall, with the steepest decline among first-year undergraduates, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported on Thursday (Oct. 15). The organization...
