America’s colleges and universities have weathered a turbulent year marked by budget cuts, political pressure from the White House, and looming demographic shifts expected to drive enrollment declines ...

For the past two decades, the Washington Monthly has included in its annual college rankings measures of a university’s research prowess—its record of producing the new scholarship and scholars that ...

All 10 UC campuses are among the best universities in the world in research impact, with eight among the top 25 public universities in the United States, according to the just-released 2025-26 Best ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Niche.com released its annual ranking of the best U.S. colleges and universities for 2026, with a Connecticut school ranking No. 2 overall. Yale University came in at No. 2, ...

The life of the mind may be a deeply personal thing, but as embodied in colleges and universities, it is also a very public thing—and the two go hand in hand. Since taking office, the Trump ...

In the spring of 1943, Hans Bethe, a theoretical physicist and professor at Cornell University, left Ithaca, New York, for a classified government site in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Once there, he led ...

Is America’s justice system racist, rotten to the core, and in desperate need of reform? Or does stricter sentencing and increased policing help to keep vulnerable communities safe? One might think ...

Higher education‘s repudiation of the federal government’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education is not about the technical details of the proposal or the tortured definition of ...

If you doubt that America’s elite universities have lost their way, consider that, as part of a settlement with the Trump administration, Harvard is considering building trade schools. Whatever ...