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.
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.
Two things the metrics cannot tell you, so we say them plainly: whether the host will still accept a contribution article this month, and whether the section your piece lands in is crawled weekly or monthly. Everything else on this page — 52 DA, 45 PA, 41 DR, 2,662 visits, $45, do-follow — is measured, dated September 2026, and available to you before you commit.
Also expect strict link limits, usually one, and frequent nofollow rules on institutional sites. A 52 DA educational page with 2.7k 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.
Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 52 DA and 2.7k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.