Un nuevo reporte de la agencia de noticias Reuters confirma lo que muchos estudiantes universitarios ya sabían y que parece difícil de creer: Los de las universidades públicas se están graduando con más deudas que los de las privadas.
The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business will move its Asia Executive M.B.A. program from Singapore to Hong Kong, making it the latest institution to move a program away from the city-state after setting down roots there. The Singapore campus, which opened in 2000, will stop accepting executive M.B.A. candidates, though the university said in its announcement that it was exploring space options for holding some activities in Singapore after the program moves.
Last week, Gov. Bill Haslam and Bob Mendenhall, president of Western Governors University, officially launched a new higher-education choice for Tennesseans: WGU Tennessee.
Jennifer Kerr took a mighty leap of faith when she sued a for-profit college for misrepresenting what kind of degree she’d be earning and its value to her future. Tucked into her contract with Vatterott Educational Centers Inc. was a provision that, should she sue and lose, Kerr would be responsible for Vatterott’s legal costs.
The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) has reaffirmed accreditation for the University of Phoenix for 10 years, but has placed the Phoenix-based for-profit university, which operates in Colorado, on "notice" status for the next two years.
Despite Chancellor University's ongoing woes, particularly concerning its accreditation, the school's president, Bob Daugherty, had insisted in recent years that the institution formerly known as Myers University was poised to emerge as a leader in online business education.
A joint degree run by New York University (NYU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), awarding a master of laws degree from both universities, had benefited just nine Singaporeans since the one-year postgraduate degree was launched in 2007, Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang revealed last week.
Private College Week runs July 29 through Aug. 1. The program invites all rising high school juniors and seniors to visit one of 24 private colleges across Virginia.
When Kelsey Hunt was mulling where to go to college, she considered a half a dozen institutions before deciding to attend Spring Arbor University when she becomes a freshman this fall.
Thank you for encouraging families to use 529 plans in planning and saving for college. The fact that you write about them every couple of years is terrific. I wanted to be sure you were aware of our unique 529 plan, Private College 529.
The costs of higher education are growing much faster than inflation. The average price for tuition, fees, room and board at a private institution averages nearly $24,000, or almost half of what the average family brings in each year.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania on Friday, reviewing allegations that the private liberal arts school has failed at handling sexual misconduct on campus and retaliated against sexual assault survivors.
The debate over for-profit higher education is heating up again. And while much of the criticism revived here by Democratic politicians is unlikely to lead to policy changes, at least some action appears likely in two areas in coming months.
Faculty salaries at public universities are failing to keep pace with private colleges and industry, surveys show — and that reflects South Dakota’s reality, too, though not necessarily the dire consequences.
A subsidiary of Barnes & Noble has been chosen to run Hawaii Pacific University’s bookstores in Downtown Honolulu and at its Hawaii Loa campus in Windward Oahu, the state’s largest private university said Tuesday.
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia has ordered the unaccredited University of Northern Virginia to shut down for failing to achieve candidacy with an accreditor recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.