Aiding and indebting: Northwestern University uses its elite reputation to market online degrees from its counseling psychology master's program, housed in the Family Institute building (above), that ...

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Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a troubling exposé on the crushing debt burdens that students accumulate while pursuing master’s degrees at elite universities in fields like drama and ...

W hen the Institute of International Education issued its annual foreign-student census last fall, it was one for the record books: International enrollments clocked their largest one-year increase in ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct the non-profit status of a college. We regret the error. Brown University recently announced a $46 million ...

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Is college worth it? Well, it depends on what degree you're getting and where you're getting it, according to a new paper from the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP), an economic ...

What’s your biggest professional challenge in the year ahead? There are those that are deciding interest rates at the Central Bank, others are tackling new Covid viruses with the World Health ...