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Murad Sezer / Reuters The Most Predictive Factors of Post-Graduation Wages
How much do internships, majors, and institutions really matter for lifetime earnings?
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Matt Rourke / AP Rich Students Go to Graduate School to Get Richer
A new study shows pupils from higher-income backgrounds are more likely to enroll in programs with larger payoffs.
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Jim Cole / AP Have Public Universities Lost Their Focus?
The problem with higher education is that colleges are operating more like businesses and less like a social good.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Dissecting the Youth Vote
Americans under 30 years old leaned left in this election, but not to the extent that they have in the past.
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Edgar Su / Reuters The Colleges Are Watching
With access to predictive analytics and more data than ever before, how can universities avoid invading students’ privacy while promoting academic success?
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Is Entrepreneurialism at Odds With Deep Thinking?
Schools across the country have competing ideas on what—beyond a diploma—students should leave campus with.
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J Pat Carter / AP Understanding the Many Crises of Student Loans
The $1.3 trillion composite-debt total is far from the only problem degree seekers—especially those at for-profit universities—face.
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Dan Balilty / AP The Long-Term Consequences of Missing School
Six million children are chronically absent, half of whom are enrolled at just 4 percent of the nation’s school districts.
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John Gress / Reuters A New Effort to Teach Low-Income Students Marketable Skills
The Department of Education is encouraging corporations in high-demand fields to partner with universities.
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Matt Rourke / AP Rich, Stingy Colleges
Elite universities with endowments of more than $500 million tend to be frugal with aid for low-income students.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Public Dollars Don't Favor Rich Students
A new study debunks the myth that wealthy college students receive more state money than do the economically disadvantaged.
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Noah Berger / Reuters Taking More Courses May Help Solve the College Debt Crisis
Even though schools often encourage students to ease into their credit requirements
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Seth Perlman / AP What Teachers Lose to Pension Debt
States have fallen behind in their obligations, spending more on retirement debt and less on educators’ pay.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters What Workplaces Gain When They Send Their Employees Back to School
New evidence the corporate college perk works
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Wikimedia The Growing College-Degree Wealth Gap
A new report demonstrates a stubborn chasm between rich and poor students earning bachelor’s degrees.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Slow Growth of College-Graduation Rates
According to a new report, more Americans earned a higher-education degree in 2014 than in 2008.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Outsiders Welcome
Are some college admissions rigged for non-residents? One large public university system stands accused of hurting local students by attracting more out-of-state ones.
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AP / Cliff Owen The Dispute Over Whether Attending a Good College Helps or Hurts Average Students
“Mismatch is a not a racial effect. Mismatch is something that affects all groups.”
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Pat Sullivan / AP How to Help First-Generation Students Succeed
A combination of simple nudges and regular check-ins from mentors can go a long way.
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Odilon Dimier / PhotoAlto / Corbis Getting Rid of Placement Exams
Many states are abandoning the tests—which often land students in ineffective remedial college classes—in favor of focusing on students’ high-school grades.
