We are a few months from the elections and the current front-runners are Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. It seems like these two will be the representatives for their own respective party and go head to head in the elections. If one of the 2 candidates becomes president they will try to implement their own ideas of what will benefit us as a whole. They have plans on immigration, foreign policy, and the economy but what matters to us students is education and specifically college and how it will affect us.

Trump is a very vocal person but when it comes to college and education he actually doesn’t have much to say. One of the things Donald Trump continues to say is that he will cut spending and may cut the Department of Education. This department hands out Pell grants and handles nationwide education data. Trump opposes what is known as “dumbing down” and he says he wants to challenge students and allow them to make mistakes. Trump once started a university called Trump University. The state of New York said the name was misleading for it was not actually chartered as a university. Trump University got sued many times.

On the Democratic side Hillary Clinton is the frontrunner and she has more to say about education. She said in-state tuition would be cheaper and would allow students to get 4 years of college without taking out a loan but it will not be free. Applying for Federal aid would be simpler and so would repaying loans. With Clinton in charge she would make colleges be held to a higher standard and be more transparent with the students and parents. Clinton will punish colleges if their graduates can’t repay their loans. She didn’t create a university that got sued.

Clearly Hillary Clinton has more to say than Trump for once, but he may have some ace up his sleeve, or maybe by the end of the year these two won’t actually be our nominees. Anything can change from here until then.