Today is the perfect day to commit to a college investing plan with NextGen because it’s never too early or too late to begin investing for higher-education expenses. If you have been hesitating because there’s not much money to spare, or maybe because college expenses seem too overwhelming or too far in the future to tackle, opening a NextGen account can help. Any money you are able to invest today can help you defray future college costs.

The charts below help illustrate how college costs keep rising. When you open a NextGen account today, you’ll put yourself in a good position to help meet these costs.

SOURCE: CollegeBoard, Trends in College Pricing 2010, Average Published Charges for Undergraduates by type and Control of Institution 2010-11.

SOURCE: The College Board, Annual Survey of Colleges; NCES, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).