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College students should be more intentional when preparing for the job market, and could consider internships and short-term jobs to help them get ahead.
The cost of college is on the rise – but college grads still earn more than those without a degree.
Polytechnic universities try to incorporate skills-based learning into education.
Amid federal funding cuts, the enrollment of both domestic and foreign students is falling at American colleges and universities.
Students and their families can’t plan for everything, or know with absolute certainty what the best decision is. But they can be better informed about options.
Federal work study creates opportunities for students and universities alike. But the program’s challenges go beyond the potential government funding cuts.
A person with the average amount of student loans is paying nearly $300 a month, an amount that many people find difficult to meet.
A recent survey shows a dramatic drop in people who consider a college degree to be very important from 2010 to this year.
The architects of general education envisioned it would benefit all students. Decades later, political affiliation plays a role in determining whether people agree.
A new study finds that hiring practices, not a bachelor’s degree, may be the ‘great equalizer’ of opportunity for some soon-to-be grads.
Nearly half of all students who enroll in college never finish. Are colleges and universities to blame?
Students of color graduate at higher rates when they go to colleges where there are larger portions of the student body and faculty who are also of color.
Community college students reveal some of the top reasons why they leave school without a degree.
Students who are the first in their family to attend college view a college degree differently than children of college-educated parents, researchers find.
As federal student loan debt continues to rise, a number of scholars discuss how debt affects the nation’s college students, graduates and the economy as a whole.
Efforts to get more Americans to earn a college degree steal attention from what makes up a college education, a historian of education argues.
A handful of high-profile executives have humanities degrees. But those standouts make up a small proportion of the total pool of American executives.
Though some have suggested that college majors should be scrapped, a higher education scholar warns that getting rid of college majors may create more problems than it solves.
The May jobs report showed that US unemployment is at about a 50-year low. That’s not how it feels to many men who’ve never been to college.
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