About Mike Brown
Current Role
Personal finance reporter
Degrees
- Bachelor's degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware
Latest from Mike Brown
The Best Colleges For Financial Aid
LendEDU provides an updated look at which colleges are the best for financial aid. We factored in need-based aid, non-need-based aid, and financial...
Which Colleges Bring in the Most Money From Applications?
For the third time, LendEDU crunched college application data to create a variety of rankings,...
Cities Best Positioned For Economic Advancement in the New Decade
With the new decade upon us, LendEDU analyzed various socioeconomic trends in America's largest cities...
Colleges Giving International Students the Most (and Least) Financial Aid
A look at the average financial aid package offered to international students at 738 colleges...
What Is the Average Tax Debt in Each State in 2019?
Using data from Solvable that featured 75,000 unique tax debt cases, LendEDU found average tax...
The Cost of Christmas in 2019
For the third consecutive year, LendEDU has surveyed 1,000 adult Americans to find out the cost of Christmas in 2019. Plus, there's a...
Cost of Thanksgiving in 2019
For the third consecutive year, LendEDU found out how much the average American will be spending on Thanksgiving between food and travel. It...
Student Loan Default Rates by School & State
Using the newest data from the Department of Education, LendEDU lists the student loan default...
Trick or Treat: How Much Does the Average American Spend on Halloween?
LendEDU's third annual study also included price comparison research that found consumers can save a...
How Do Americans Spend Their Monthly Income?
LendEDU compared each generation's average monthly budget and found boomers spend a lot on credit card debt, while millennials save quite a bit...