Money Management for College Students

Money Management for College Students

Money Management for College Students

By Karin R. O’Callaghan
Frederick Fell Publishers Inc.

College students can bank on at least two “givens” each fall—classes starting and a flood of enticing credit card offers. Enticing, indeed; the average college undergraduate leaves school about $12,000 in debt, says www.collegecreditcounseling.com, a nonprofit organization established to help consumers in debt.

Money Management for College Students, which presents the financial facts of life in a basic, informative way, should be required reading for every college student. Money Management explains the essentials: money and banking, goal setting and budgets, credit cards, insurance, credit reports, investments, and more. Most important is its message: Financial mistakes now can affect your whole life.

“The book is not intended as the be-all and end-all of money information,” O’Callaghan says. “It’s the basics—enough information to get them thinking and paying attention to their finances before it’s too late.”

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