Admissions / registrar

A company that helps leading graduate and professional schools handle applications has owed millions and misled its clients about why they're not getting their money, lawsuit alleges.

Survey suggests students in fully online programs are motivated by furthering their careers -- and that they will look outside their home states to do so.

Author discusses a new approach to affirmative action in admissions that she says could help the disadvantaged without some of the legal and political issues that challenge current approaches.

What would it really take to be in the U.S. News top 20? ​And can anyone really change in the 'beauty pageant' of the reputational survey?

What happens after tuition-dependent private colleges miss their enrollment goals? Depends on the campus.

Lawsuit accuses Common Application of violating antitrust law by pressuring colleges into adopting certain policies. Admissions experts are split on whether the charge has validity.

Supreme Court finds that Michigan voters had the right to bar public colleges from considering the use of race in admissions.

International applications to U.S. graduate schools increase, but the Council of Graduate Schools says the distribution of applicants by country is cause for concern.

An admissions officer was killed on the bus to Humboldt State -- guiding students he recruited from Los Angeles.

Consultant's report blames insufficient testing and a poor plan for frustrating problems experienced in the fall. Analysis also notes concerns about pricing policies that may have left colleges more vulnerable than they might have been.