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It goes without saying that choosing your college degree is a major decision. It’s a choice that likely will impact your entire college experience, not to mention your future career. Some students arrive on campus knowing exactly what they want to major in. Others have a vague idea, but leave some room for themselves to […]

Twelve-year-old Jeremy Shuler will attend Cornell University this fall, The Ithaca Journal reported. The preteen genius, from Lubbock, Texas, plans to major in engineering, the same field in which both of his parents work. “I was excited when I found out I got accepted to Cornell,” Shuler told Texas Tech Today. “It is the best […]

There are nearly 100,000 elementary, middle, and high schools in the US, which combine to form an array of school districts of varying size and quality. The best districts are coveted, and a high-caliber school system can be a key factor when a family decides to relocate to one city over another. about the methodology […]

When it comes to March Madness, legendary basketball-centric schools don’t just win a few games. They have die-hard fans and unrivaled game attendance, and consistently make appearances in the Final Four. In honor of the 2016 men’s NCAA championship basketball game, we turned to college information and rankings site Niche to find the schools with […]

In April, Yale University faced intense backlash after it announced that Calhoun College, one of 12 residential colleges, would retain its name despite calls for change. The college was named for John C. Calhoun, a 19th-century alumnus and a fervent supporter of slavery. Students threw fake $1 million bills at Yale President Peter Salovey during […]

Charter school advocates in New York City are hailing tremendous growth on state tests as further proof that city leaders must embrace the charter-school movement. New York City charters, which are publicly funded but privately run, outperformed the city’s traditional public schools in both English and math in grades three through eight. “If Mayor de […]

At Harvard University, the issue of exclusive, mostly men-only final clubs has roiled emotions on campus over the past year. A task force sanctioned by Harvard President Drew Faust excoriated exclusive final clubs for their “deeply misogynistic attitudes,” leading to backlash on campus from people who feel Harvard’s administration is overstepping its bounds and unfairly […]

If you graduated this past spring and are still trying to figure out what you want to do with your life, don’t fret. To help those entering the job market figure out where the greatest opportunities lie, personal-finance site WalletHub used data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Oxford Martin School at the […]

University of Virginia (UVA) fraternity Phi Kappa Psi brought a $25 million defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone. The suit was filed in response to the now-discredited article “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA,” which told the story of a gang rape that apparently never happened. The story drew […]

In just a few short weeks, the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will commence, catapulting familiar faces, along with some new, onto one of the world’s biggest stages. Some of the athletes participating in their first ever Olympics, while barely able to drive, have proven themselves to be fierce competitors. Take a look […]

A new federal report reveals that state and local governments have increased spending on prisons and jails at three times the rate they’ve increased spending on grade-school education in the last three decades. The analysis used data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Center for Education Statistics, US Census Bureau, and other sources to […]

For many people, the summer months symbolize pleasure reading at its best. It’s a time to indulge in the texts that are most appealing, without scrutiny: an easy beach read, a guilty pleasure, or that book you’ve always meant to start. But students at America’s most prestigious private schools must still endure the rigors of […]

Business Insider recently reached out to the most prestigious private schools in the US to obtain their summer reading lists, and we got hundreds of titles. The works spanned centuries, genres, and continents, to appeal to a wide array of students’ personal reading tastes. However, of the hundreds of books we pored through, eight works […]

Armed with a bachelors degree in mathematical economics and practical teaching experience in his arsenal, Welsh-born Sam Chaudhary came to Palo Alto on a tourist visa in the summer of 2011 to launch an ed tech startup. But the pesky issue of exactly what that startup would resemble remained elusive. So he and co-founder Liam […]

Author, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, died Saturday, at 87. Wiesel’s most famous work, “Night,” is a an autobiographical account of his time spent in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald from 1944 to 1945. Over the past 30 years, it’s become a mainstay of required reading lists in high school […]