Carnegie classification's new category of “doctoral/professional universities" acknowledges growing role of non-research-oriented doctoral work in graduate education.

"There was no way I could have gone to a university after high school," said Emily Buckner, 20.

A new report has found that students' due process rights are no guarantee at a majority of the nation's top schools.

The examples include statements from professors at Yale, Georgetown, and Michigan State University.

While not on the agenda, student debt and graduation rates emerged as focuses of last week's University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees meeting where students offered an olive branch to trustees in a plea to freeze rising tuition rates.

Legal experts challenged the justifiability of the expensive ticket price charged by Yuelu Academy, an institution of higher learning with a history of over a thousand years.

Online education provider unveiled plan to monetize its MOOCs, but observers say real opportunity for edX to grow lies in online program management business.

In 1854, a 26-year-old Chinese man, Rong Hong (Yung Wing), graduated from Yale University.

Stanford University is making changes in how it calculates undergraduate students’ financial aid to exclude the value of home equity, acknowledging that many families may be house rich but cash poor and see college as out of reach.