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Patient data exposed in big online breach, sites help with choosing plain vs. train, colleges introduce net-price calculators and other consumer focused news from The New York Times.

Roughly 530 colleges across the country will soon have to submit special reports to Uncle Sam, explaining why their tuition and student fees have recently surged.

For-profit colleges are the fastest-growing sector of education, but will the federal aid that pours into these schools have results similar to the mortgage meltdown?

Some colleges are cutting application fees, how to get discounted theater tickets and other consumer-focused items from Tuesday's Times.

The cost pressures on many students and universities, coupled with technological advances, could relegate campuses and prepackaged education to the history books.

The Chronicle of Higher Education says colleges are now offering new disciplines for students, including a major in the science behind customer service.

Steve Henn reports.

Many universities replaced loans with grants and otherwise worked to make college more affordable. But that was before once-hefty endowment funds started shrinking.

Squeezed by sharp declines in the value of their endowments, many smaller schools that adopted the loan-free policy in 2007 and early 2008 are rethinking their decision....

The parents of some students are willing to pay $40,000 or so to try to ensure admission to select colleges.

A growing field of independent admissions counselors is willing to accept it.

To whittle away at costs, colleges are scrapping cafeteria trays and landlines while buying student labor.