College and University

The Most Expensive College Town in America

By Beth Braverman

Living off-campus has long been seen as a way to save money on college expenses, but it’s getting a lot harder to find a deal. Here’s the most expensive college town for off-campus rents.
Do Public Universities Really Favor the Upper Middle Class?

By Edward Morrissey

A college education has always been described as an investment in the future – for students, and more broadly, for American society. Parents and students alike have already begun questioning the...
The Hardest College to Get Into in the US

By Janna Herron

The most difficult college to get into in the country, the California Institute of Technology, accepts less than one student for every 11 applicants. Caltech doesn’t actually have the lowest...
The 10 College Majors Employers Want Most This Year

By Janna Herron

The proportion of employers planning to hire recent college graduates hit a decade-high this year. Here are the 10 majors most in demand.
The Best Colleges for Older Students

By Beth Braverman

By 2020, nearly one in five students in higher educations will be over the age of 35.

What College Students Worry About Most

By Beth Braverman

The biggest driver of stress around college admissions is no longer about whether students will get into their top school.
College Endowments Take a Big Hit

By Beth Braverman

College endowments had a tough year in 2016, losing money even as the overall stock market racked up double-digit gains.
The Big Payoff for Cinderella Schools in the March Madness Tournament

By Beth Braverman

Lesser known schools can see a big jump in applications and merchandise sales after an appearance in the NCAA basketball tournament.
The Most Expensive College in America

By Beth Braverman

College tuition goes nowhere but up. Here’s the most expensive college of them all.
Ranking the Schools that Turn Poor Kids into Wealthy Ones

By Rob Garver

Schools that admit a lot of students from low-income families and help a significant percentage of them find their way into to the top tier of earners aren’t leafy private schools, but mostly urban...

Why Men and Women Still Can’t Get Along at Work

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

Millions of working people today are stuck, failing, or quitting their jobs not because they lack ability or ambition – “but because they haven’t figured out how to work effectively with the opposite...
How Online Education Can Save Our Universities

By Peter Wood, Minding the Campus

The wolf at the door of American higher education is online instruction . Traditional residential colleges hear it snuffling at the threshold. They know they are vulnerable. They cannot compete on...
Harvard Confirms It: The Rent Is Too Damn High

By Diana Olick, CNBC

Since the housing crisis began in 2008, approximately 4.6 million homes were lost to foreclosure, according to CoreLogic. The vast majority of those homeowners became renters. Even as housing...
Why ‘Easy’ Student Loans Are a Moral Hazard

By Gary Jason, Minding the Campus

Here, in a nutshell, is the human toll of the student-loan mess: It is forcing many recent grads to defer marriage and having children; it is hobbling many prospective entrepreneurs that our economy...
Millennials Jump Ship over Obamacare Bait and Switch

By Edward Morrissey

It took long enough for the demographic that will pay the most for Obamacare to finally figure it out. Now that the wealth transfer from younger and healthier adults to older sicker ones through...

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