Filter & Sort
What Goes into a Degree?
UConn's stalled proposal to limit outside credits earned by non-transfer students generates controversy and may be a sign of future tussles to come over "unbundled" degrees.
Affirmative Action Alive and Dead
Study finds evidence that state bans on consideration of race in admissions have a significant impact – and one that extended to some nearby states without bans.
The Future Grad Students
New data from ETS illustrate gaps by race and nationality in GRE scores, and differences between graduate population of Americans and non-Americans.
Further on Gainful Employment
Education Department proposes perhaps its strictest proposed language on the rules so far, a week before negotiators get back to business.
To Be a Black Man at UCLA
A student's video prompts a different kind of discussion about race.
Opinion
Annual Veterans Count, 2013
Wick Sloane's yearly survey of how many former military service members are at the nation's elite private colleges finds, to his dismay, that the situation is actually getting worse.
Choose Your Ranking
U.S. News -- with money from Qatar Foundation -- looks to evaluate universities in the Middle East while two British rankers plan to compare universities in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
Opinion
When a Better Ranking Is a Bad Thing
Many of the criteria of U.S. News reward philosophies that public universities should be running away from, not embracing, writes Robert J. Sternberg.