Common App CEO Jenny Rickard says to remember that a college application is a sum of its parts, and any extracurricular ...

Paying for college is no small feat: Annual tuition and fees at ranked four-year colleges for 2021-2022 ranged from about $10,300 for in-state public schools to about $38,200 for private institutions, ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

Garrett Andrews is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Portland Community College where he teaches State and Local Government. Brenna Swanston is an education-focused ...

Increasingly, high school students are rethinking the value of college. The rising cost of college and ballooning student loan balances have played a large role in changing views about the higher ...

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At first glance, calls from members of Congress to restore academic merit in college admissions might sound like a neutral policy. In our view, these campaigns often cherry-pick evidence and mask a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael Nietzel, former college president, writes on higher education Nationwide, women comprised 58% of all college students in ...

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College was once widely viewed as a pathway to success, but today only about 1 in 4 Americans say a bachelor's degree is necessary to secure a well-paying job, according to a new survey from the Pew ...

A growing number of would-be undergraduates are opting out of college. The pandemic has accelerated the problem of affordability. College dreams are not what they used to be. Up until this year, high ...

Forty years ago 32 percent of counselors and teachers advised all students to go to college. Just 10 years later, in 1990, that percentage had doubled with roughly two-thirds of educators recommending ...