Gov. Terry Branstad last week signed into law a $117.8 million spending adjustment that, among other things, strips $18 million from Iowa’s three public universities yet this budget year — the one that’s already more than half over.

“Urgent” action is required to stop Indian academics fuelling a multimillion-dollar predatory publishing industry, a new study says.

At a time when some colleges have eliminated the discipline, a historically black college is restoring the major.

Fort Hays State University and Cowley County Community College announced Friday that they are teaming up to offer two kinds of bachelor's degrees that students can earn in four years or less at a total cost of less than $15,000.

Outcomes-based funding is a growing trend more states are using to fund higher education.

As many Northeastern colleges fear enrollment declines, Lehigh University charts ambitious growth plan including 1,000 additional undergraduates, 100 more faculty members and a new college of health.

Experts say current law doesn’t permit punishing a university over handling of a speaker -- and that the president’s tweet distorted what took place

International students rate themselves as significantly better at completing study tasks and activities than academics judge them to be, according to a study at a US university.

There are 3.6 million female students in Afghanistan today, compared to zero in 2001.

Some education researchers have begun downloading federal data amid questions about the new administration's commitment to continuing transparency efforts.