Like many US colleges, Virginia Tech struggles with costs. Almost half its graduates leave with loan debt averaging more than $30,000 (£22,700) apiece. But unlike many US colleges, its students don’t seem to be getting especially grumpy about it.

This year's Jefferson lecture focuses on how "the humanities have what medicine needs."

Open-access agreement’s founder says enthusiastic response has already increased ambition

When a Chinese company seeks to buy an American music college, opponents of the sale raise academic freedom concerns. Over the last several years, Chinese buyers have purchased a number of campuses in the U.S.

Loyola Marymount University’s College of Business Administration has received a grant of more than $1 million from the U.S. Department of Education to expand international business education initiatives over the next four years

"We must train international medical students to become qualified doctors, which is not only crucial for their countries' medical profession, but also can help promote the Belt and Road Initiative," a medical education expert said.

A professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill nominated Dr. Christine Blasey Ford for one of the school's “Distinguished Alumni Awards,” citing how Ford “told the truth” about an encounter she allegedly had with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Thinking about dropping out is associated with perceptions of low one-to-one contact with staff and non-traditional delivery methods, research on one university suggests

One year after announcing a plan to phase-out its full-time MBA program, officials of the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business unveiled a new strategy to keep students enrolled. And it doesn't involve sitting in a classroom.

Six more institutions are following Georgia Tech’s lead and launching affordable online master’s degrees with edX.