Admissions

At the University of Central Missouri, the number of students from India went from 152 five years ago to 2,429 in 2015 -- and 631 today.

Is use of non-need-based aid educationally sound? Does it create financial vulnerabilities for the schools? Questions asked about undergraduate admissions are showing up in professional admissions as well.

New results -- showing majority of white people believe they face discrimination -- surprise many. But attitudes, especially about college admission, don't always reflect the bias and disadvantages experienced by nonwhites or actual enrollment trends.

Jim Jump doesn’t favor abolishing all early programs, but he sees problems -- especially for students -- in the approaches used by many institutions.

Nicholas Soodik writes that myths about one perfect place hurt high school students thinking about their futures.

Tuition and fees increased by a few percentage points across the board, and aid failed to keep pace, annual College Board report shows.

A big boost to college completion would pay off for students and the economy, a new paper finds, but would substantially increase the federal deficit.