Samantha Frank

Education Writer & Researcher

Samantha Frank is an education writer and researcher specializing in online higher education, college affordability, and federal financial aid. Her work focuses on what degrees actually cost after aid — tuition schedules, Pell Grant math, and financial aid refund checks — using primary federal datasets rather than school marketing materials. Every school she covers is verified against the U.S. Department of Education's DAPIP accreditation database, and every dollar figure in her articles traces to IPEDS, the College Scorecard, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or a school's published tuition schedule.