Topic: Colleges And Universities

New Trend Caps College Costs at

Some schools won’t charge extra if you need more than four years.Some schools won’t charge extra if you need more than four years.Attention, parents of future college students: A number of colleges across the country (currently about 15) are offering four-year degree ...

"Freshman 15" weight gain is a myth, new study finds

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The idea that college freshmen gain an average of 15 pounds in their first year of school is a myth -- the average is really between 2.4 pounds for women and 3.4 pounds for men, the co-author of a ...

College students echo Occupy Wall Street with protests

BOSTON (Reuters) - Anger at high tuition bills and a lack of jobs propelled U.S. college students into streets and quadrangles on Thursday in the latest offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement.The "National Student Solidarity Protest" was organized by Los ...

Sarah Lawrence College ranked as priciest in U.S.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Higher education in the United States is not cheap but Sarah Lawrence College in New York, with total costs of $58,334 a year, is the most expensive college in the country, according to a new ranking.For the second ...

Harvard toppled from top of worldwide rankings

US and British institutions once again dominate an annual worldwide league table of universities published Thursday, but there is a fresh name at the top, unseating long-time leader Harvard.California Institute of Technology (Caltech) knocked the famous Massachusetts institution from the summit of ...

Oxford 4th, Cambridge 6th in university rankings

US and British institutions once again dominate an annual worldwide league table of universities published Thursday, but there is a fresh name at the top, unseating long-time leader Harvard.California Institute of Technology (Caltech) knocked the famous Massachusetts institution from the summit of ...

Higher education

Nevada's universities are critical to state's future economic successThe leaders of UNLV and UNR both recently gave their annual speeches outlining the state of their universities and, without shying away from the difficult fiscal realities facing their institutions, both were remarkably optimistic.UNLV ...

U.S. higher education struggling since 2008: Moody's

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Public and private universities across the United States have been struggling with endowment losses, thin liquidity, declining gifts, reduced state help and resistance to tuition hikes since 2008, Moody's Investors Services said on Monday.These problems have spurred an increase ...

Ivy League schools top ranking of U.S. colleges

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ivy League schools again topped a popular ranking of the best U.S. colleges, but shared the spotlight with Williams College and Amherst College, and the University of Maryland.In the 28th edition of the U.S. News and World Report rankings, ...
A new report that crunches the numbers on the missed earning potential of college dropouts says failing to graduate results in millions of dollars in lost income and tax revenue that could have helped spur economic development in Nevada and across the ...
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