At $45 this is a budget listing; the maths still has to work, and it works when the page is topical and the host is active.
Also expect strict link limits, usually one, and frequent nofollow rules on institutional sites. A 54 DA educational page with 4.9k monthly visits is worth having in your profile for plausibility and citation, and you should not expect it to shift a competitive keyword on its own.
The arithmetic a buyer should see: 4,900 estimated visits a month, $45 per placement, so $9.18 per thousand visits for a do-follow link on a site scoring 54 DA and 50 PA. Snapshot September 2026; availability and the exact link attribute are confirmed on the live URL before an invoice, which is the only part of this page that changes week to week.
Educational publications keep their pages for years, which is the main reason to place here: a genuinely useful admissions or study guide is consulted on the same dates every academic year, so a link inside it keeps being crawled long after a news article would have decayed. It also means the bar is set by the site's own reference-style content, and a thin promotional contribution stands out badly.
Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 54 DA and 4.9k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.