She says, 'I just decided to shoot my shot at all of them and see if it would land. I had no idea that I would get accepted into all of them.'

The five-year president at Harvard, lauded as a ‘great captain’ by colleagues, will remain on until next summer.

Private institutions lead the way, but some online schools, publics and for-profits prove just as competitive.

To rank the research universities that are excelling at creating new knowledge, a new analysis is measuring tech transfer—or the impact of the innovations that campuses share with the world and private industry.