Offices of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, pictured June 11, 2024. (Photo by Emma Murphy/Oklahoma Voice) OKLAHOMA CITY – Fourteen presidents of Oklahoma’s public colleges and universities on Wednesday asked the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education for hikes in tuition and fees. Many presidents said inflation was a reason for the proposed […]
U.S. News & World Report recently released a ranking of America’s best engineering schools, and a handful of Ohio universities received some love. The outlet individually ranked the top 90% of schools. The remaining 10% only received a ranking range, rather than a specific number. Ohio has eight schools in the top 90%. The University […]
The Facts Egypt might have the most places of African universities on the 2025 QS Top Universities global ranking but it is South Africa which again has the top universities in Africa. The University of Cape Town was the highest placed African institution though ranked just 171st in the world. It is one of four […]
Hattiesburg’s William Carey University topped the charts this week as Mississippi’s best value university, according to a study conducted by financial technology company SmartAsset. The study ranked Mississippi colleges and universities based on tuition, living cost, scholarship opportunities, student retention and new graduate starting salaries. Mississippi State University clocked in at second, followed by University […]
This article was originally published in Stateline. With college costs rising and some students and families questioning the return on investment of a four-year degree, a few pioneering state universities are exploring programs that would grant certain bachelor’s degrees in three years. The programs, which also are being tried at some private schools, would require […]
Students walk to and from classes on the Indiana University campus, in Bloomington, Indiana. The state just enacted a new law calling on all Indiana public universities to study how they would implement a three-year bachelor’s degree program, if accreditors agree, to save students money and get them into the workforce more quickly. (Darron Cummings/The […]
(Getty Images) With college costs rising and some students and families questioning the return on investment of a four-year degree, a few pioneering state universities are exploring programs that would grant certain bachelor’s degrees in three years. The programs, which also are being tried at some private schools, would require 90 credits instead of the […]
An almost five-year-old policy on diversity, equity, and inclusion at North Carolina public universities has been repealed after a vote by the UNC System Board of Governors, according to the News & Observer. The diversity policy repeal was passed last week by the 24-member UNC System board by a majority 22-2 vote. The policy change […]
Programs and administrative positions supporting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at North Carolina’s public universities are one step closer to facing potential elimination — or at least significant changes — following a vote by the board that oversees the schools. The UNC System Board of Governors approved a policy Thursday that repeals the university system’s […]
At 16, Katya Kondragunta has already lived through two disasters amped by climate change. First came wildfires in California in 2020. Ash and smoke forced her family to stay inside their home in the Bay Area city of Fremont, for weeks. Then they moved to Prosper, Texas, where she dealt with record-setting heat last summer. […]
May 20—The University of Hawaii at Manoa placed in the top 2.5% of a new global ranking of more than 20,000 universities. UH announced Sunday that it was ranked 511 on the Global 2000 list by the Center for World University Rankings, which measured key areas such as education, employability, faculty and research. UH also […]
Police held back crowds of protesters outside University College London (UCL) on Saturday as Israel-supporting demonstrators faced off with a pro-Palestine crowd. The counter-protest came in response to a pro-Palestine encampment that has been set up at the university’s campus in Bloomsbury, London. UCL students have pitched tents near the main campus building to show […]