Researchers from West Virginia University said they had no idea their study of vehicle emissions from Volkswagen diesel cars would jolt the German auto manufacturer into an apology and send its stock price plummeting.

The increasingly skewed sex ratio in China not only worries the parents of marriageable young people, but also their schools.

Unlike at colleges and universities, where students finish their studies and leave with a diploma, most learners who complete one of Coursera’s massive open online courses report benefits that help them in less measurable ways.

The US’ public higher education system has engaged in an “un-excellence initiative” that will lead to a drop in the quality of its universities ...

Two of Ohio’s largest research hubs, Ohio State University and the Cleveland Clinic, announced with gusto three years ago that they were joining forces to commercialize their medical-related work.

A medicine degree course at a UK university is not open to students from the UK - only overseas students are allowed to apply.

Rachel Dolezal, the former head of the NAACP in Spokane, Wash., and adjunct instructor of Africana Studies at Eastern Washington University, ...

The decline in Chinese students attending US graduate schools is expected to cause major problems for the country’s postgraduate sector given its huge reliance on this cohort,

Arizona is producing more high school graduates, but that is not translating into an increase in the number of local students eligible to attend one of the state’s three public universities.

Central in the debate about divesting endowments from fossil fuels is not only climate change, but the question of whether such a move could hurt colleges financially.