Higher education

Sometimes schools will take private scholarship money and subtract that from its institutional grant. It’s known as scholarship displacement, and a handful of states are passing laws to end it.

While some colleges are dropping their legacy admissions policy, there are less formal benefits for those with family connections.

Peter Blair Henry, Dean Emeritus of NYU's business school, explains how today's ruling will affect corporate performance.

While HBCUs provide bright futures for Black students, they aren’t as well funded as other prestige universities.

Those hard-earned community college credits don't always count toward a four-year degree.

It isn't easy to find buyers for typical cinder-block campus buildings.

This spring, there were 14.2 million undergraduates in the U.S., about 9% fewer than in spring 2019.

More than half a dozen have announced they're closing over the past year or so.

U.S. borrowers hold a collective $1.8 trillion in both public and private student loans.

Some schools are creating college programs for adults who've finished one career — and may want to use their past experience to give back to their communities.