WORK-STUDY RESEARCH

Empower students to

graduate debt-free &
experience-rich

Helping those who use tech to make the world a better place

Through our research with economists from Stanford, Columbia, Vanderbilt University and Strada Education Foundation, we aim to understand if career-aligned, off-campus work-study jobs promote college completion and career readiness.

Work-study students: join the study!

Work your way

through college

with work-study

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Since 1964, work-study has provided institutions with funds to subsidize up to 75 percent of eligible students’ wages, encouraging them to employ students in part-time, educationally-relevant jobs.

Over $1.2B in available to subsidize student's wages

Established to enable low-income students to “work their way through college."

Over 600 million students, or 1/10 full-time graduates

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Research Team

Economist and Conley-DeAngelis Family Professor of Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Nichole Torpey-Saboe

Vice President of Research, Strada Education Foundation

Folio's mission is to close the job-readiness gap and empower upwards mobility.

What if work-study

was more like an

internship?

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We seek to understand whether a model that allows work-study to be more like career-aligned internships help students succeed after graduation.

Could work-study promote

College Completion & Career Readiness?

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