Ashford University is one of more than a dozen for-profit colleges across the country looking to become nonprofit institutions, a change that would make them subject to less federal oversight and shed the often-maligned “for-profit” designation.

Technology-based education start-up Woz U, announced today a partnership with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), one of only 32 polytechnic universities in the United States.

Biology, the scientific study of life at every level, shows how organisms — from single cells to human bodies — stay diverse and productive over time.

An Asian university’s decision to hand control of curriculum design to major employers has sparked debate about how higher education institutions can ensure that their students graduate with the skills needed by industry.

New findings tweak "traditional" label for presidents, asking whether U.S. public colleges and universities these days are being led by more nonacademics than we think.

There are only a handful of astronauts, but every year thousands of high school and college students get to visit space vicariously, by launching their own satellites.

President Trump's first public reaction to the cancellation of "Roseanne" is a shot at Disney CEO Bob Iger.

A US televangelist has asked his followers to help fund his fourth private jet - because Jesus "wouldn't be riding a donkey".

In April, the World Bank released the latest results of the Global Findex database, the most comprehensive resource to understand how adults use financial services to save, borrow and protect themselves against economic shocks.

Some of Europe’s biggest research universities have warned that the current commercial academic publishing system may not be able to deliver fully open-access research, and that institutions themselves may have to set up rival platforms instead.