Pay for university presidents has risen dramatically over the last several years, according to data from The Chronicle of Higher Education. The highest-paid university president as of 2016, former Baylor head Ken Starr, made 41 times the average full-time professor salary. Here are the 15 highest-paid public and private university presidents as of 2016, the […]
The Class of 2019 is getting ready to begin their post-college lives. We found a set of US cities with large and thriving populations of recent college grads and young adults. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. The Class of 2019 is getting ready to begin their post-college lives, and many new graduates are […]
We recently published a ranking of the 20 best cities for college grads. Here are the details of our data sources and ranking method. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. We recently published a ranking of 20 US cities with large and thriving populations of young college graduates. Here’s how we assembled that ranking. […]
Tupac Mosley, a 17-year-old high school student, became valedictorian after maintaining a 4.3 GPA, all while homeless. Mosley won 50 scholarships worth $3 million just before graduating in May. During his valedictorian speech, he said, “Never let your current situation, whatever circumstances you’re going through, be a mountain that you can’t climb.” Visit Business Insider’s […]
Here are the 15 largest donations to public and private colleges, tracked using data from The Chronicle of Higher Education. The largest donation belongs to billionaire and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Nike co-founder Phil Knight has made several donations above $100 million to schools on the West Coast. Visit Business Insider’s homepage […]
School-ranking website Niche listed the best college dorm rooms in America. The best residence halls in the country belong to High Point University in High Point, North Carolina. Niche based their ranking on factors like housing cost, capacity, crime rate, and ratings from students themselves. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. If you attend […]
Women graduate with $2,700 more student debt than men, according to a new report by the American Association of University Women. Women hold more bachelor’s degrees than men in the US, but face more difficulty paying off loans. Greater debt is one of many barriers keeping women from earning as much as men. Visit Business […]
Private-equity tycoon Robert F. Smith vowed Sunday to donate a reported $40 million to pay off student loan debt for Morehouse College’s graduating class of 2019. While the rich have given universities generous gifts for decades, billionaires are addressing the ballooning student-debt crisis directly by paying the tuition of incoming students or writing checks for […]
Udacity seemed to stumble last month when it restructured and laid off about 20% of its workforce. But founder, executive chairman and interim CEO Sebastian Thrun tells Business Insider that the business is on track to do $100 million in revenue this year, up from $88 million in 2018. He says the layoffs were not […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook gave the commencement speech at Tulane University on Saturday, during which he encouraged students to listen to others and remain open to seeing the world in a different way. Cook encouraged students to pay attention to “what we owe one another” and touched on the importance of addressing climate change. Visit […]
Glassdoor released its list of the 25 highest-paying entry-level jobs for 2019. Engineers, in particular, can earn median salaries as high as $95,000 right out of college. Here is the full list of the top 25 highest-paying jobs for young graduates. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. For most millennials, struggling to find high-paying […]
School-ranking website Niche rated the best public school districts in every US state. To determine the best school districts in each state, Niche gave a letter grade to factors like academics, teachers, health and safety, and diversity. The best school district in America was Jericho Union Free School District in Jericho, New York. Visit Business […]
The SAT will include “adversity scores” that measure a student’s privilege, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The score will indicate a test taker’s socioeconomic status and educational access, and will only be visible to college officials. The change comes in the wake of a $25 million college admissions scandal in which […]
Glassdoor released its annual list of the highest paying internships. Facebook pays interns the most at $8,000 a month. Tech companies comprised 44% of the list, while finance and consulting firms followed closely behind. Here are the 25 highest paying internships in 2019. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Internships can be a gateway […]
College is more expensive than ever, leading many business leaders and experts to offer ways to get good jobs without needing a degree. Yet college graduates still earn more than non-college graduates in every state in the US, according to data from the 2017 American Consumer Survey. Here’s how much more college graduates make in […]
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Insider Picks writes about products and services to help you navigate when shopping online. Insider Inc. receives a commission from our affiliate partners when you buy through our links, but our reporting and recommendations are always independent and objective. The best gifts for college students can make a big impact on their quality of life, […]
Attending college is expensive. Thankfully, there are dozens of affordable public and private schools that offer financial aid to students in need. We compiled the 50 best colleges for your money, according to Niche, with MIT landing the top spot. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Attending a four-year university requires a long-term financial […]
Insider Picks writes about products and services to help you navigate when shopping online. Insider Inc. receives a commission from our affiliate partners when you buy through our links, but our reporting and recommendations are always independent and objective. Skillshare is an online platform that provides access to over 25,000 adult learning courses — many […]
School-ranking website Niche rated the best public high schools in every US state. To determine the best public high schools, the site looked at SAT and ACT scores, reading and math proficiency, graduation rate, AP enrollment, and diversity, among many other factors. The best public high school in the US is Illinois Mathematics and Science […]
One boy with a grudge against me convinced a group of kids to harass me throughout my senior year in high school. The adults in my life failed or refused to stop the bullying. If the same thing happened today, I hope the outcome would be different. This happened decades ago, but the scar sometimes […]
Using data from Payscale and OneClass, we found the 25 humanities majors with the highest average salaries. Various majors yield high salaries by mid-career, but one of the most common was foreign-language majors. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. College majors in the humanities can be some of the most rewarding for students, but […]
Billionaire philanthropist Ken Langone helped found Home Depot in the 1970s. Langone recently donated $100 million to help make NYU’s medical school tuition-free for all students. Langone — who worked odd jobs to pay his way through college — told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that he donated the money to make life easier for those burdened […]
Coursera, an online platform that offers university and technical classes, announced Thursday it raised $103 million in Series E funding that valued the company “well north” of $1 billion, according to a Coursera spokesperson. SEEK Group led the round, and existing investors Future Fund and NEA also participated. Coursera has 40 million registered learners, up […]
Avenues: The World School is a private school in New York City where tuition is $56,400 per year. Students at Avenues range from nursery level to 12th grade, and there’s also a part-time program for 2-year-olds. The admissions director, David Buckwald, explained the school’s admissions process by grade level to Business Insider. Younger children are […]
Lowe’s is partnering with 60 other businesses and organizations for a campaign to promote the skilled trades. This “Gen T” initiative will launch a national online marketplace for jobs, apprenticeships, and education programs. Lowe’s trade skills director Michael Mitchell told Business Insider that the skilled trades have been “miscast” for the past 40 years in […]
Parents in Kansas say the Mark Zuckerberg-funded education platform Summit Learning caused physical and emotional ailments to children due to excessive screen time, The New York Times reports. Parents and students in multiple cities are protesting against the use of the platform in schools. The Silicon Valley startup offered to bring quality education to underserved […]
Insider Picks writes about products and services to help you navigate when shopping online. Insider, Inc. receives a commission from our affiliate partners when you buy through our links, but our reporting and recommendations are always independent and objective. Students across the nation are eagerly preparing for graduation and what awaits them beyond the ceremony […]
Avenues: The World School is a private school in New York City where tuition is $56,400 per year. Students at Avenues range from nursery level to 12th grade, and there’s also a part-time program for 2-year-olds. Each student is given either a MacBook Air or an iPad Air that they can take home with them […]
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren proposed canceling up to $50,000 in student loan debt for 42 million Americans. In a blog post, Warren wrote the plan would spur economic stimulus. She would use funds from her Ultra-Millionaire wealth tax to pay for the measure. The amount young people owe hit record numbers in 2018, and […]
In 1999, Columbine High School, in Littleton, Colorado, faced at the time the largest school shooting in American history. Now 20 years later, survivors still suffer debilitating side effects from the trauma of that day. Four Columbine survivors spoke with Business Insider in 2018 about the aftermath of the tragedy, their efforts to help preempt […]
Ester Wojcicki — the mother of YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki — has a new book coming out on May 7 about how to raise successful children. Wojcicki told Fortune in a recent interview that her approach can be applied by business leaders as well, and boils down to the acronym […]
In 1999, Columbine High School, in Littleton, Colorado, faced at the time the largest school shooting in American history. Myths about the two shooters and their motives developed in the early reporting on the event. The shooters weren’t goths who were bullied by jocks. Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories. The Columbine High School massacre was […]
Avenues: The World School is a private school in New York City where tuition is $56,400 per year. Students at Avenues range from nursery-level to 12th grade, and they also have a part-time program for 2-year-olds. David Buckwald, the admissions director, says that while the school has a holistic admissions process, there’s one quality that […]
Personal Finance Insider writes about products, strategies, and tips to help you make smart decisions with your money. Business Insider may receive a commission from The Points Guy Affiliate Network, but our reporting and recommendations are always independent and objective. As American students get ready to return to college — or to move in for […]
On Wednesday legacy education company Pearson announced Pearson Ventures, a venture fund with an initial capital commitment of $50M over three years. The fund will focus on early stage companies. The fund will decline to lead Seed and Series A rounds, opting instead of a co-investment structure that does not influence Pearson’s larger merger and […]
Tech talent is becoming harder to come by in Silicon Valley, as other cities are becoming powerful innovation hubs and attracting workers, according to a recent report. A survey conducted by the Brunswick Group reveals that about half of Bay Area tech workers surveyed say it’s becoming harder to find and recruit talent. Respondents also […]
Theranos, the failed billion-dollar startup now facing criminal charges, was largely brought down with the help of whistleblowers within the blood-testing company. Two of those whistleblowers, Erika Cheung and Tyler Shultz, have launched an organization that teaches ethical practices and decision-making to entrepreneurs building their own companies. The organization, called Ethics in Entrepreneurship, focuses on […]
On Tuesday, Lego Education introduced SPIKE Prime, a new robotics kit to teach middle school students how to code. It’s up for preorder now for about $330, and shipping in August. With SPIKE Prime, students build robots and use an app to program the robots in Scratch — a drag-and-drop programming language that’s popular as […]
When asked what advice she would give to her 25-year-old self, Bonita Stewart, Google’s Vice President of Global Partnerships, says: “Go see for yourself.” Stewart talked with us about how immersing herself in her career impacted the work she’s done at Google. As Google’s Vice President of Global Partnerships, Bonita Stewart is no stranger to […]
Wealthy New Yorkers go to great lengths to get their children accepted in the “Baby Ivies,” private preschools and kindergartens that cost around $50,000 a year, reported Suzanne Woolley and Katya Kazakina for Bloomberg. Competition is high at the “Baby Ivies,” where 10% acceptance rates rival that of the “Grownup Ivies.” It’s the start of […]
The best business schools in the world are ranked each year by education specialists QS Quacquarelli Symonds. QS recently released rankings for various MBA specializations, including the top programs for careers in entrepreneurship. QS based its ranking on surveys of employers, academics, and business school programs, and evaluated MBA programs on how many students went […]
2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris just introduced an ambitious new plan to give US public school teachers an average raise of $13,500. Harris’ plan would raise the estate tax and close loopholes to fund the massive federal boost to teacher pay, with her campaign estimating the full cost of the proposal at $315 billion over […]
The best business schools in the world are ranked each year by education specialists QS Quacquarelli Symonds. QS recently released rankings for various MBA specializations, including the top programs for careers in technology. QS based its ranking on surveys of employers, academics, and business school programs, and evaluated MBA programs on career outcomes in the […]
A chapter of fraternity Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) at the University of Georgia has been suspended after a video showing frat members using racial slurs and whipping each other as a joke went viral. The national Tau Kappa Epsilon organization expelled four members involved with the video and issued a statement saying the national body […]