The average price for in-state students is about a fourth of what's charged at private colleges, per U.S. News data.

College is one of the biggest investments you’ll ever make. We built a tool to compare the earnings of all available majors in a federal data set at nearly every school.

Americans differ in their opinions of higher education. Earning a bachelor's degree is not the best choice for everyone. Families should weigh the costs and benefits of college. As costs rise and ...

Garrett Andrews is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Portland Community College where he teaches State and Local Government. Brenna Swanston is an education-focused ...

College is for other people — rich people. People who know exactly what they want to be when they grow up. People in the movies, maybe. At least that’s what San Diego native Julie Pelaez thought.

Many Americans have begun to ask whether college is worth it. And who’s to blame them? With college tuition rising at astronomical levels, it’s reasonable to think prospective consumers will do a more ...

Increasingly, high school students are questioning the value of college. A new Pew Research Center analysis finds that job opportunities and wages are improving for workers without a bachelor's degree ...

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For most people, the new economics of higher ed make going to college a risky bet. Credit...Illustration by Sean Dong Supported by By Paul Tough Paul Tough is a contributing writer for the magazine ...

College was once widely viewed as a pathway to success, but today only about 1 in 4 Americans say a bachelor's degree is necessary to secure a well-paying job, according to a new survey from the Pew ...

Artificial intelligence arrived on campus as a crisis but has since become banal. Students can now do basically all their schoolwork automatically with AI—answering scientific problem sets, writing ...