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The Trump administration is reportedly floating the possibility of investigating affirmative-action practices on college campuses, according to a New York Times report citing internal documents from the US Justice Department’s civil rights division. That arm of the DOJ is reportedly seeking lawyers who would be tasked with investigating, and possibly suing, higher-education institutions over alleged […]

Student loan debt can feel like a dark rain cloud hanging over your head. But, if your debt isn’t included in the $5 billion in student loan debt that may be thrown out due to shoddy paperwork practices, you’ll likely have to bite the bullet and pay it off. While you’re paying off your debt, […]

Earlier this year, the hazing death of 19-year-old student Timothy Piazza during a pledge event at Penn State’s Beta Theta Pi fraternity shocked the country. The death garnered attention due to its highly documented, visual nature. (Security footage provided a detailed account of events on the night of his death.) In just the past few […]

If you want to go to college, it’s more expensive than ever. Tuition at both public and private schools in the US continues to rise at a fast clip, and Americans collectively owe more than $1.3 trillion in student loan debt. Using data from The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s interactive chart, Business Insider rounded up […]

To become a master of something, at least in the academic world, you have to earn your master’s degree, which usually requires an additional year or two of schooling after acquiring your bachelor’s degree. Few master’s degrees come cheaply, as Business Insider previously reported. According to a 2014 study from college planning site EAdvisors, more […]

Disappearing student loan debt is a dream for many borrowers. But for tens of thousands of student borrowers, that dream could become a reality. Billions of dollars in student loans may be wiped out because the lender — The National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts — didn’t keep track of the paperwork. For the rest of […]

President Donald Trump is donating his second-quarter White House salary of $100,000 to the Department of Education, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Wednesday. “It’s that time again, as many of you have probably noticed, … for us to announce where the president will be donating his quarterly salary,” Sanders said. “This quarter the president […]

The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation has been around since 1946 and has created some of the most iconic implements for creating cool sounds in the history of humanity. The Telecaster and Stratocaster electric guitars are icons of rock, pop, country, and just about everything in between. Bruce Springsteen, Chrissie Hynde, Buddy Holly, Mark Knopfler, the […]

Borrowers who default on their student loans are pursued aggressively by the Department of Education and private debt collectors, facing garnished wages, withheld IRS tax returns, and decreased Social Security payments, Reuters reported. “We treat struggling student-loan borrowers the same as deadbeat parents and tax cheats,” Seth Frotman, a senior member of the Consumer Financial […]

Business school admissions are competitive, with schools looking for the right mix of experience, undergraduate grades, and GMAT test scores. With so many components of an MBA application, sometimes it’s unclear what stands out most to a reviewer. Isser Gallogly, associate dean of MBA Admissions at New York University’s Stern School of Business, visited Business […]

College affordability has become the preeminent issue in higher education, as student-debt figures have hit staggering levels. While most conversations center on ballooning tuition costs, which have long surpassed the rate inflation of other consumer goods, last year tuition costs grew at the slowest pace in decades, The Wall Street Journal reported. Labor Department data […]

College is a costly endeavor, that’s no secret. But paying for it doesn’t have to be a huge financial burden, so long as you’re saving the right way. According to a new report from Sallie Mae, one of the smartest ways to save for college is grossly underutilized by Americans: the 529 college savings plan. […]

The key to writing a business school essay that will get you noticed requires you asking one question: Does this sound like me? “The general principle about what stands out are people who are really speaking from the heart,” Isser Gallogly, associate dean of MBA Admissions at New York University’s Stern School of Business, told […]

Attending college is a cornerstone of the American Dream, but the path to get there looks different for everyone. A new report from student loan lender Sallie Mae found that families living in the Northeast are more likely than the rest of the US to consider the quality of a university’s academic program when choosing […]

Grades aren’t enough. To get into top business school programs, you must not only prove yourself academically capable, but also demonstrate you have certain personality traits that signal to schools you will be an exemplary business professional. Many of those softer skills come through clearest in the admissions essay, which means people often try and […]

Whoever said that a college degree isn’t worth the paper it’s written on never considered becoming an engineer. Typically, you need a bachelor’s degree to do that, and whether you want to go into architecture or aerospace, you don’t need any more education to earn around $100,000 a year as an engineer. Don’t want to […]

More high school students in the US are graduating than ever before, in part because of rising grade-point averages. But a new study suggests the trend isn’t cause for celebration. Over the last two decades, high school GPAs have risen considerably while SAT scores have fallen. To the researchers behind the study, the conflicting trends […]

A business school application has a number of components that you must nail in order to earn a school’s acceptance. But with so many different places to potentially screw up, the whole process can be nerve-racking. Luckily, the worst thing you can do is easy to avoid. “I think the worst thing you can do […]

Ivy League colleges are notoriously tough to get into. Their acceptance rates range from 5.2% to 12.5%, and former Ivy League admissions directors say it’s harder than ever to gain acceptance to the schools. So you might be surprised to learn that other schools have even lower acceptance rates. Business Insider listed schools that are […]

Education is meant to enrich students, and part of that experience is ensuring that they learn in a quality environment. This year’s shortlist for the World Architecture Festival, held over three days in November in Berlin, Germany, include feats of educational design from the US, France, Vietnam, India, and everywhere in between. Here’s a sampling […]

A top official in President Donald Trump’s Education Department said she believes that nine out of 10 sexual assault cases can be summarized by “we were both drunk.” On Thursday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is meeting with various advocates and university officials as part of efforts to review former President Barack Obama’s policies on how […]

Finding a college that offers rigorous coursework at an affordable price which yields a competitive future earnings is hard enough. Add close proximity to the beach, and your options are limited. Money.com did just that, and pegged the best US colleges for people who love the beach. The ranking started out with the same analysis […]

The price of college in the US continues to tick upward. Today, the average annual cost to attend a public university is about $19,000, and for a private university that figure is about $42,000. Now more than ever it seems that college students must think carefully about choosing their college majors and the future earning […]

“Personalized learning” is one of the trendiest educational theories in Silicon Valley right now. It involves each student learning at his or her own pace, generally through the aid of technology, and it’s beloved by tech billionaires like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. But both Gates and Zuckerberg, in addition to other big names in […]

Dozens of text messages from Penn State fraternity brothers were read in court on Monday during a preliminary hearing on the hazing death of Tim Piazza, Buzzfeed News reported. “I think we are f—ed. Like beyond f—ed,” Beta Theta Pi fraternity brother Daniel Casey texted his girlfriend in February, according to Buzzfeed. “I don’t want […]

Enrollment at the University of Missouri is plummeting two years after the school was rocked by racially charged protests, according to a New York Times report on Monday. Freshman enrollment at the school has fallen 35% since 2015, costing it millions of dollars in lost tuition, and leaving it desperate for funding, the Times reported. […]

Most Republicans now believe that colleges and universities have a negative impact on America. The gap between how Republicans and Democrats view American education systems has grown even wider in recent years, a new study published Monday by the Pew Research Center reveals. While 72% of Democrats believe that colleges and universities have a positive […]

The price of college in the US continues to tick upward. Today, the average annual cost to attend a public university is about $19,000, and for a private university that figure is about $42,000. With that in mind, Money.com ranked the best colleges for your money, and dubbed them the “paycheck league.” The ranking looked […]

Supreme Court Justice John Roberts gave a New Hampshire boarding school graduation speech to Cardigan Mountain School students in June, and imparted some wisdom that he said could make a big difference in graduates’ lives. “Once a week, you should write a note to someone,” Roberts told graduating ninth graders. “Not an email. A note […]

This past spring, a new batch of students graduated business school, eager to put their MBAs to use. And despite having spent countless hours spent studying the intricacies of finance, accounting, marketing, and operations, many of these graduates will tell you that the most important thing they learned at business school wasn’t from a textbook […]

While colleges and universities push for diversity among their student bodies, the leaders of their campuses continue to look pretty homogeneous. The American Council on Education released its 2017 study on college presidents and found that the average president tends to be a white male in his early 60s who has been in the role […]

This year’s TED conference produced dozens of exciting talks, touching on topics such as education, transportation, poverty, and artificial intelligence. Not everyone could afford the $10,000 ticket, however, so thankfully many of the talks have finally been made available for public viewing online. Here are some of the most mind-expanding talks thus far. SEE ALSO: […]

The parents of Megan Rondini, a former University of Alabama (UA) student who killed herself after an alleged rape, have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against her alleged attacker, university officials, and individuals in the Tuscaloosa sheriff’s department. Michael and Cindy Rondini also believe their daughter’s alleged attacker, Terry Bunn Jr., escaped prosecution because he’s the […]

When it comes to Excel, there isn’t much middle ground. You have people who absolutely love it and will sing the praises of spreadsheets all day. And, then you have the people who absolutely detest it. They’d rather lock themselves in a phone booth full of mosquitos than have to go cross-eyed looking at all […]

America’s Independence Day is upon us. For most of us, that means summer fun, fireworks, and lots of red, white, and blue decorations. It also means that 241 years ago, the Second Continental Congress approved a resolution to declare independence from Britain — although historians believe that most of them didn’t sign it until about […]

As the most recent crop of college seniors have been awarded their diplomas, the next important decision many will make is where they should move now that they’ve graduated. A ranking of the best major metropolitan areas from the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) may help students having trouble making the call. AIER calculated […]

A college education is a huge investment of both time and money — so it’s helpful to know which schools and programs are worth it. With that in mind, Nitro, an online resource that helps incoming college students plan their education financing, examined median student-loan debt and median earnings 10 years after graduation at the […]

In 2000, I graduated from Central High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Central opened in 1979 after a federal court order forced the mostly segregated high schools in the Tuscaloosa City Schools system to integrate. For the next two decades, Central was an academic and athletic powerhouse in Alabama, producing state championships and National Merit Scholars. […]

Business students can’t wait to work at Google, and their engineering and IT classmates couldn’t agree more. Universum, a global research and advisory firm, surveyed 149,226 undergraduates studying engineering or IT in the 12 countries with the world’s largest GDPs — Germany, France, UK, Italy, Russia, US, China, Japan, Brazil, India, Canada, and South Korea. […]

Student loans are no joke. In 2017, student loan debt has swelled into a $1.3 trillion crisis in the US, according to Forbes. An estimated 44 million borrowers shoulder this financial burden. The blog Make Lemonade estimates that the average Class of 2016 grad owes $37,172. So, what are some coping strategies for recent grads […]

Job interviews can often feel like interrogations, with hiring managers drilling applicants on their work experience and best professional qualities. But successful candidates typically know that the best interviews are conversations rather than a one-sided questioning. Jeff Reynar, director of engineering and New York site lead at Facebook, visited Business Insider and provided some advice […]

Howard University, one of the nation’s largest historically black colleges, is granting 25 to 30 students the chance to spend their summer as Googlers. For three months starting this summer, rising juniors and seniors will take classes at the new Howard West campus in Mountain View, California. Students at Howard West will learn from Google […]

Bernie Sanders had terse words for federal investigators looking into his wife as part of a fraud inquiry related to her tenure as president of a small Vermont liberal-arts college. The FBI is investigating allegations that Jane Sanders made fraudulent claims and promises while seeking $10 million in financing for a real estate deal on […]