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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Readers respond to the Trump administration’s punitive cuts at Columbia and other schools and the future of higher education. To the Editor: Re “Colleges Are Under Attack. They Can Fight Back” ...

New rankings from the personal finance company WalletHub has revealed what the best and worst colleges and universities are in America for 2026. The top five ranked universities, according to ...

Six Minnesota universities were ranked among the best national universities by U.S. News and World Report. The University of Minnesota - Twin Cities was the highest-ranked Minnesota school, placing ...

Yale and 23 other research universities filed a legal brief Monday to aid judicial review in a lawsuit about the federal government’s freeze on research funding. The suit aims to preserve critical ...