Highly-ranked programs for specific fields, like business or engineering, exist at universities with higher acceptance rates.

Princeton University held onto its spot at the top of the annual "U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges" list for 2025. The Ivy League school once again ranked as the best national university in the ...

The SAT OR ACT standardized test score used to make or break college applications for high school seniors. But the pandemic turned that all on its head as nearly 80 percent of four-year colleges and ...

As Harvard University announced free tuition for all families making under $200,000, higher education in America faces a reckoning over its affordability for the everyday American. For decades, ...

Three of these public colleges are more specifically focused in their academics, namely, the Colorado School of Mines in Colorado; the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Massachusetts; and the ...

More college and universities are slashing their budgets as they try to reckon with higher education's new economic realties. The financial woes facing higher education continue to spread, evidenced ...

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MINNEAPOLIS — U.S. News and World Report released its annual rankings of the best colleges and universities in the country on Tuesday, and several Minnesota schools received recognition. The rankings ...

Some universities flaunt them. Some academics despise them. And students and parents browse them to help determine what school might be right for them. College rankings claim to know which schools are ...