After being accepted, the setbacks started quickly and kept coming. Burns learned the advertised computer science degree wasn't ready. "This was a cash grab. I feel like they saw an opportunity and they knew that they could leverage their name," Burns said. Burns' frustration is with Morehouse, but the school isn't solely responsible for the […]
Utilizing publicly available data and leveraging its remaining resources, U.S. News lists Yale Law School as their top pick, despite the school leading the charge against the popular ranking website in November.
A degree in finance from some of the country's most esteemed private institutions can earn a student at least $30,000 more than the median B.A. graduate earns, according to data collected by Looking Glass Institute.
Despite enrollment challenges and some rural towns' skepticism about the value of a college education, Lake Area Tech boasts a 76% three-year graduation rate and transfer rate and Walla Walla Community College helped create a booming winery industry.
Yale has joined a newly formed consortium of 16 colleges and universities working together to help students from small-town and rural America pursue opportunities in higher education. The program, officially known as the Small-Town And Rural Students College Network, seeks to identify, recruit and support promising students from rural communities and small towns. This summer, […]
More respondents chose a "college with the best program for my (my child's) career interests" (38%) than they did a "college with the best academic reputation" (11%) as the two top factors in the selection process, according to The Princeton Review's 2023 College Hopes & Worries Survey Report.
The University is the last Ivy League college to announce test-optional extensions through 2024. Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth all extended their test-optional policy beyond the upcoming admissions cycle, and Columbia announced March 1 it would permanently switch to test-optional admissions. Penn and Yale have confirmed that they will be test-optional for the 2023-24 cycle, while Cornell has extended the policy through the next two cycles. Of the students […]
Amy Wax, a law professor, has said publicly that "on average, Blacks have lower cognitive ability than whites," that the country is "better off with fewer Asians" as long as they tend to vote for Democrats, and that non-Western people feel a "tremendous amount of resentment and shame." At the University of Pennsylvania, where she […]
Eric Gertler, CEO and executive chairman of U.S. News & World Report, defended the publication's contentious university rankings in an opinion piece published yesterday (Feb. 28) in the Wall Street Journal. In the past few months, more than a dozen top-ranked medical schools and at least 40 law schools, including those at Yale and Harvard, have publicly announced they will […]
