Robert Farrington, known as America’s Millennial Money Expert® and America’s Student Loan Debt Expert™, is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The College Investor, a prominent personal finance platform helping you navigate the intersection of money and education. Farrington has emerged as one of the nation’s leading student loan debt experts, sharing his successful student loan and wealth building expertise with thousands of young adults. He is regularly featured across a variety of media, from mainstream television and radio, newspapers, magazines, and podcasts. He is also a contributor to major publications such as Forbes and Huffington Post. In addition to The College Investor, Farrington is an angel investor and startup advisor, with a focus on consumer-facing FinTech and EdTech companies.
Robert Farrington Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
Academic History
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Under his leadership, The College Investor has become the No.1 resource for helping millennials get out of student loan debt and start building real wealth for their future.
The platform is one of the largest personal finance websites, reaching millions of individuals every month.
It is a dynamic hub of information, resources, methodologies, and platform, institution, and technology reviews for new investors.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Farrington has been featured in major sites such as The New York Times, Huffington Post, Business Insider, Kiplinger's, and USA Today.
He has been quoted in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, Today, and more.
He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Cult of Money, which is a platform used to teach personal finance for the crypto-curious.
He has been a Personal Finance contributor to Forbes since 2014.