As mission statements become highly generalized, they provide diminishing guidance for allocating resources, defining target student populations or evaluating program and institutional performance.
Colleges often use merit aid to compete for students who appear able to pay full tuition, but limited data has made it hard to show how often that happens. This report examines how widespread the practice has become across different types of institutions.
Let's be honest, the term "higher education" is a misleading and hierarchical label that elevates traditional college pathways over equally valid trade and career pathways.
Institutions are no longer debating whether AI will transform the sector; instead, they are focused on how quickly they can translate its many possibilities into meaningful progress.
At Messina College, students take small classes and labs, and work closely with mentors. The college says most students pay an average of $2,000 per year for tuition, room and board.
The inclination to buy small but lavishly doesn't reflect irresponsibility as much as the need to have some agency in an economy that has outpaced young people's means.
As higher education rebounds from the pandemic dip and amasses more nontraditional learners, here are some data points that can win over more skeptical students and their families.
Inflation‑adjusted net prices have dropped for virtually all students over the past decade across public and private institutions, a new analysis reveals.
