College catalogs in the future will reveal how much textbooks will cost for each course. The seven-page financial aid application form will be simplified into a two-page document. And universities will be required to report their operating costs to the federal government and explain reasons …

The Project on Student Debt released on Wednesday its third annual report, “Student Debt and the Class of 2007.” The survey found that graduating seniors in 2007 carried 6 percent more debt than those in 2006, averaging almost $22,000, while mean starting salaries for graduates …

Wealthy research institutions may be able to weather the economic downtown by delaying building projects and forgoing faculty raises, but a subsection of cash-strapped private colleges could be in serious trouble, according to a report released Thursday by Moody’s Investors Service.
The economic crisis is particularly …

On October 8th, the Department of Education hosted in Washington, DC the fifth in a series of hearings across the country to determine the concerns regarding the implementation of the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) and determine how to structure the negotiated rulemaking process. …

Private equity firm ClearLight Partners announced today that it has completed the sale of its portfolio company U.S. Education to DeVry Inc. in a transaction valued at $290 million.
U.S. Education was formed to acquire, develop, and grow private career colleges throughout the Western United States. …

Here is a list compiled of the top 25 colleges and universities in the United States. We would love to hear some feedback, so if you have attended any of these, please comment with your experiences!
Rank & Name
1 Princeton University
2 California Institute of Technology
3 …

Economic conditions are forcing people to change their ways of life, and the situation is no different for college students.
Several Ozarks colleges are reporting dramatic increases in their online enrollment for the fall 2008 semester, and they all point to the same three factors: convenience, …

If small class size, world-class professors and an endowment larger than some nations’ GDPs were the only criteria for ranking colleges, Harvard might always come out ahead. (Guess who tops the annual U.S. News and World Report list this year?) But the National Wildlife Federation …