College students will be inundated by credit card offers the minute they take out their student loans, but most of these offers come with an abundance of fine print that could leave your student paying heinous interest rates for the most minor transgressions (like a payment that’s late by just a few days, for example). These options provide more ways to ruin credit than build it. So if you want to help your student start off on the right foot where his credit score is concerned so that he can buy a car or get a lease on his own after graduation, here are a few methods you can use to help your college student build a credit history:

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