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Engaging
A student opens your page at eleven at night with one question and about forty seconds of patience. What they find should meet them in language they already use, in a form they can move through without asking anyone for help. That gap between publishing information and actually communicating is where most college websites quietly lose people.
How This Gets Measured
Three counts, taken across every page we watch, updated on every scan.
20%
Pages with nothing in the way
198 pages watched
93%
Pages that answer rather than link away
13 are nearly empty or all links
20%
Pages a student can read easily
plain language target
how easily a student gets through your pages
What Changes on the Page
Language
01Written to Be Understood
Policy language rewritten at the reading level your students actually use, without losing the precision your office needs it to keep.
Format
02Built to Be Used
Timelines, calculators, and step-by-step tools replace the wall of text that nobody finished reading anyway.
Consistency
03Consistent Everywhere
One term, one definition, one explanation, no matter which office published the page or how long ago.
Interactive Components
Answers Students Can Build Themselves
Cost of attendance is the hardest thing on any college website to explain, and the question underneath it is always the same: what will this actually cost me? A static table cannot answer that, because the answer depends on the student. So we built a component that asks five questions and returns their number, with the part your institution bills separated from the part they manage on their own.
Total Cost of Attendance, 2025-2026
$54,322
Traditional BSN, Colorado resident, covering 12 months of enrollment. This is the ceiling on the aid you can receive, not a bill.
Billed to Your Account
Charges that appear on your student bill.
Billed to Your Account
Tuition
What the university charges for the credit hours you enroll in. The rate is set per credit hour and changes with your residency and your program.
Campus Fees
Required university fees that fund services shared by all students, such as the transit pass. Your first term also carries a one-time matriculation fee.
Program Fee
A college charge tied to your program and your credit load, billed separately from tuition.
Student Health Insurance
Degree-seeking students are required to carry health coverage. If your own plan is comparable, you can request a waiver and this charge comes off.
Estimated, Not Billed
What the university estimates you will spend on your own.
Estimated, Not Billed
Living Expenses
A monthly allowance for housing, food, transportation, and personal costs, set using state budget parameters.
Books and Supplies
An estimate of what your required course materials will cost across the year.
Academic Travel
An estimate of the travel tied to clinical placements and required academic activity.
Loan Origination Fees
A percentage the federal government deducts from each loan disbursement before the money reaches your account.
| Term | Credits | Months | Cost of Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | 10 | 4.5 | $20,848 |
| Spring | 10 | 4.5 | $20,688 |
| Summer | 4 | 3 | $12,786 |
| Total | 24 | 12 | $54,322 |
Flip either card to see what each line actually means.
The Rebuild
Structure Carries as Much Meaning as Words
Federal loan guidance arrived as nested bullet lists running four levels deep. Nobody reads legislation to find their own situation. The same content became a dated timeline, a comparison table, and questions sorted by who is asking.
One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Most changes begin July 1, 2026
Key dates
Law signed
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act becomes law.
Major changes begin
- Graduate PLUS Loans end for new borrowers
- New, lower loan limits start
- Only two repayment plans for new loans
Fewer ways to pause payments
Hardship and unemployment deferments end. Forbearance is limited to 9 months in any 24 month period.
Older repayment plans phased out
Borrowers on ICR, PAYE, or SAVE must switch plans or move to RAP.
Reflects current federal guidance and is subject to change.
FAQs
General Loan Limits
What are the new loan limits?
Starting July 1, 2026, graduate and professional students borrow under new annual and program limits. The table below shows the new limits for new borrowers.
| Loan Type | Per Year | Program Total |
|---|---|---|
| Graduate | $20,500 | $100,000 |
| Professional | $50,000 | $200,000 |
| Parent PLUS | $20,000 | $65,000 |
| Lifetime Cap, All Federal Loans | $257,500 |
Limits shown are for new borrowers. Parent PLUS limits are per dependent student.
What is the new lifetime federal student loan limit?
The maximum lifetime federal student loan limit is $257,500, which includes all federal loans borrowed across undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs.
What programs are considered professional for Federal Direct Loans?
The following programs are considered professional programs and have higher federal loan limits:
- Medicine (M.D.)
- Dentistry (D.D.S.)
- Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)
All other programs are eligible for the graduate loan limits.
Loan Types and What Counts
What counts toward your limits
Different federal loans count toward different limits. This chart shows what each type counts toward.
| Loan Type | Program Limit | $257,500 Lifetime Cap |
|---|---|---|
| Undergraduate Loans | Does Not Count | Counts |
| Graduate Loans | Counts | Counts |
| Professional Loans | Counts | Counts |
| Parent PLUS Loans | Does Not Count | Does Not Count |
Repaying or forgiving a loan does not restore borrowing once a limit is reached.
Does undergraduate borrowing count toward graduate or professional limits?
No. Undergraduate loans are not included in the graduate or professional program limits. They do count toward the $257,500 lifetime limit.
Example. If you borrowed $40,000 as an undergraduate, you have $217,500 left before you reach the lifetime limit, but you can still borrow no more than $200,000 for a professional program.
The Assistant
Build the Next One Without Us
Every component we build stays yours, and the assistant inside DELTA knows how they were made. Your team describes what a page needs in plain language and gets back working code, styled to your institution and ready for the CMS. The first tool comes from us. The tenth one does not have to.
Our study abroad page is a wall of text about deadlines. Can we turn it into something visual?
The page has four sequential deadlines and three program types, so a timeline with type filters would fit the same way the loan updates component does. I can build it from your existing dates.
Yes, and make the summer deadline the one that stands out
Done. Summer is highlighted, everything meets your accessibility rules, and the language follows your plain-language standard:
<h2>Deadlines by Program</h2>
<div class="sa-filters">Semester · Summer · Faculty-Led</div>
<!-- 4 dated stops, summer flagged -->
Want me to draft the intro copy to go above it?
The Playbook
Your Standards, Enforced Automatically
The accessibility standards, plain-language rules, and institutional terminology your team already agreed on, loaded once and checked on every future scan across every department. A style guide nobody can enforce stays a document. This turns it into a control.
Accessibility and Plain Language
Institutional Terminology
House Rule: Descriptive Link Text
Worth a LookFound On: 23 pages across 4 departments, from a rule you set once.
The Same Content, Rebuilt
Every word on the pages we rebuild was already on the institution's website. We do not add programs or invent services. We rewrite the language, restructure the information, and give it a form students will actually read.
How the Work Happens
We Read Everything
Reading level, terminology, and structure measured across every page, so the problem is a list rather than an impression.
We Rebuild Together
Your team approves the language, we do the heavy lifting, and your office keeps final say on every word that publishes.
We Hand You the Keys
The decisions you make become Playbook rules, and the assistant helps your team build the next component without starting over.
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