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According to an annual survey of college online-learning officers, 83% of online programs in higher education cost students as much as or more than in-person courses.

Harvard University, the University of Washington and the University of Pittsburgh are among the latest institutions of higher education to announce hiring freezes, citing the uncertainty around federal funding.

Since 1998, at least 135 rural school projects have waited for state funding for five years or more, an analysis of data from Alaska's Department of Education and Early Development shows. Thirty-three of those projects have languished on the state's funding list for more than a decade.

Here's a look at what the Department of Education does and doesn't do—and how much of it is protected by acts of Congress.

Student-athletes only have been able to accept payments from companies outside their universities, but this summer new rules will go into effect giving schools the option to pay athletes directly.

The 2023-24 school year saw more international students in the United States than ever before but experts say those increases could once again be threatened under the incoming Trump administration.

In a statement on Truth Social, Trump said, as secretary of education, McMahon "will fight tirelessly to expand 'Choice' to every State in America, and empower parents to make the best Education decisions for their families."

For Emily Kayser, the prospect of covering her son’s college tuition on a teacher’s salary is “scary. It’s very stressful.” To pay for it,...

Brenda H. almost didn’t make it to her first day of college. She tried to apply for financial aid through the Free Application for...

Only 13% of community college students actually go on to earn degrees from four-year institutions within eight years, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Education in 2023.

Scores of students around the nation are using the summer to strategize and plan for what their activism might look like in the fall.

For many people in prison, access to college courses is dependent on access to federal financial aid, including Pell Grant. But in over half of all states, men’s prisons offer more access to Pell Grant-eligible courses than women's prisons do, researchers say.

Starting in the fall semester, students who come from households earning less than $300,000 will have their tuition paid for, while students whose households bring in less than $175,000 will have their tuition, fees and living expenses paid for, the university announced Monday.

Some of the nation’s largest employers, including Walmart and McDonald’s, are now broaching a new frontier in higher education: convincing colleges to give retail and fast-food workers credit for what they learn on the job, counting toward a degree.

There has been a long-running rise in the number of women pursuing higher education, while the percentage of students who are men has been declining—a trend that's beginning to hit even male-dominated fields such as engineering and business.