Admission plans and strategies: Early Decision, Early Action & Regular Decision

In the ninth of her 12-part series, Katherine Ernst Mehta discusses various admission plans for undergraduate students so that they can better plan their admissions process.

Book Review: What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?

While weighing the value of humanities courses, the book says the concept of humanities is one of America’s biggest contributions to higher education.

Virtual College Tours Offer Students Unique Look at Campuses

YouVisit's platform has helped 10 million US high school and international students visit 600 different college campuses

Letters of recommendation - who, when, and how

In the sixth of her 12-part series, Katherine Ernst Mehta talks about how to get a recommendation letter that can take you one step closer to your dream school.

Why Bloomberg's Record $1.8 Billion Gift to Johns Hopkins is a Great Decision

Michael Bloomberg’s donation is designed to make the elite private research university in Baltimore both need blind and loan-free, with thousands of scholarships.

Everything You Need to Know About Optional Practical Training

To get an added 24 months of STEM OPT, a student must have a job offer and the employer must participate in the US government's E-Verify program

The new NYU Stern MBA application looks for emotional intelligence

NYU's Stern School of Business recently added a required EQ recommendation, and dropped its famous creative essay in favor of what it’s calling a 'Pick Six' essay.

Finding a Career after Georgetown Law

Georgetown pulls out all the stops to help students find internships, temporary, on-campus research or admin positions and even permanent jobs in their practice area.

Elite cyborg universities will corner education in post pandemic world, says marketing pundit Scott Galloway

Big tech giants like Apple, Google and Microsoft likely to enter education and health care in a big way, not because they want to but because they have to

Udacity's new flying cars and aerial robotics nanodegree program

Course instructors for the program include Google self-driving car pioneer Sebastian Thrun, who has a piloted drone startup called Kitty Hawk.