Higher education bonds

The program enables public colleges to enter into P3s but experts said the program is likely on hold because of COVID-19 uncertainties.

The trend should continue, unless coronavirus-related enrollment losses force an end.

Flagship schools in Michigan, Ohio and Iowa made multiple coronavirus-related disclosures in their offering documents.

The University of California and California State University systems are better positioned than many higher education peers to face the impacts of COVID-19.

Robert Kelchen, a higher education finance professor at Seton Hall University, discusses near-term challenges facing U.S. colleges as they grapple with revenue hits from the COVID-19 pandemic. Andrew Coen hosts.

Moody's Investors Service cut the Catholic college in New Jersey to Baa1 citing its rising debt burden.

The Evanston, Illinois-based university will offer $300 million of taxable debt as soon as Wednesday after losing its gilt-edged rating status.

The system is managing the pandemic's impact on its campuses and hospitals, as well as a drop in the price of oil, which supports it financially. Neither situation is expected to shake its rating strength.

Declining state support and COVID-19-related funding pressures triggered a second downgrade to New Jersey City University in advance of a $52 million borrowing.

Uncertainty surrounding whether colleges and universities can safely open their doors this fall adds stress to the already challenged higher education sector.

Moody's downgrades regional public university two notches to Baa3 ahead of a $52 million revenue refunding bond sale.

S&P shifted its outlook the Illinois public universities it rates to negative as questions abound over how the state will manage revenue losses.

Tuition revenue headwinds made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic cost New Jersey’s Rider University its investment grade rating.

Bond-financed student housing was already facing headwinds when the COVID-19 crisis sent most tenants home.

Supply-starved investors flocked to the St. Louis-based private university's taxable deal, which was upsized to $450 million from $300 million.

The rapid spread of COVID-19 creates a great deal of uncertainty about the well-being of U.S. colleges and universities.

Cash-flow struggles amid sharp tuition revenue declines the past few years placed the Philadelphia private college on the verge of another credit downgrade one year after its rating was dropped into low investment grade territory.

More than $1 billion of taxable and tax-exempt issuance is planned.

Small Catholic college downgraded to Baa2 on enrollment pressures and a heavy reliance on tuition revenue.