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The 50 best colleges in America, ranked

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Nearly 20 million students will enroll in colleges and universities this fall, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Niche ranked the 2019 best colleges based on academics, admissions rates, cost, and student life. We’ve listed the top 50 universities and colleges, plus figures for enrollment, acceptance rate, net price, and median earnings six […]

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The Justice Department threw its hat into a bitter fight over Harvard’s admission practices, and now the ACLU is getting involved

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The Department of Justice indicated that it supports a group of Asian American students who sued Harvard University over its admissions practices. The lawsuit alleges that a component of Harvard’s admissions process that takes into consideration an applicant’s ethnic background unfairly sidelines Asian students. Harvard has denied that claim. The DOJ has previously made clear […]

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Credit card startup Deserve raises $17 million to help young people build their credit in a system that makes it way too hard

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Deserve is a new company that’s focused on helping young people build credit. It just raised $17 million from Sallie Mae, Accel, Pelion, Aspect Ventures, and Mission Holdings. For many college students, there’s a Catch-22 when it comes to their finances: They can’t get a credit card or student loan because they have no credit […]

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See if you can solve some of the ethics and critical thinking puzzles Elon Musk’s secretive LA private school asks its students

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Elon Musk‘s Ad Astra school and educational software developer ClassDojo are introducing a set of “Conundrums” for elementary and middle school students. The Conundrums involve open-ended critical thinking and ethics challenges. They address questions that children may not normally encounter in a standard curriculum. ClassDojo shared a couple examples of the new Conundrums with Business […]

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NYU’s decision to go tuition-free has other top medical schools grappling with how to attract the brightest students

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NYU’s announcement that it will make medical school tuition free has other top schools across the country grappling with how they can stay competitive to land top students. Business Insider spoke with several private, top-ranked medical schools to gauge their reaction to NYU’s decision. But barring a large gift and mandate from a donor to […]

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NYU is offering free tuition to its students to fix one of the biggest problems in healthcare – but not everyone is convinced it’ll work

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New York University said last Thursday that it would offer free tuition to its current and future medical students. NYU hopes that this move will help with the shortage of doctors in the US and encourage more students to go into primary care. Many physicians voiced their skepticism about this goal via Twitter, claiming that […]

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Here are the 50 smartest colleges in America

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There are plenty of college rankings and ways to find out the best colleges in the US. These colleges enroll the smartest students in the country, according to SAT and ACT scores. California Institute of Technology took the top spot, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Which schools have the brightest young minds in […]

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The 50 smartest public high schools in America

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Public high schools can offer high quality academics just as much as private schools — without the tuition cost. Niche recently released its 2019 ranking of the best public high schools in America. Within this ranking are the smartest public high schools in America, which Niche ranked by best academics. See which high schools made […]

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LeBron James’ new public school for at-risk kids — what he’s called the ‘most important’ project of his career — could set a new standard for athletes

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LeBron James’ new public school in Akron, Ohio, I Promise School, opens on Monday. The school was created for children at risk of falling behind and offers an infrastructure to improve education and home support. James called the project “the most important” thing he’s done as a professional, and it could lead a way for […]

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This startup is betting college students will use chatbots

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Admithub is a chatbot built for college campuses. Using Admithub students could, for example, ask a last-minute question about FASFA at 1 a.m or a question about applying for housing. Or university officials could send a message with a reminder to submit enrollment forms. Admithub is used by 30 colleges and universities, including Arizona State […]

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An eccentric tech investor and self-help guru has a wild, controversial idea to solve one of America’s biggest problems that he thinks could turn you into a billionaire

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Americans owe $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, and the problem isn’t going away as tuition rates climb and the demand for college degrees remains high. James Altucher, a tech investor and self-help guru, says young people should consider letting wealthy individuals or organizations invest in their future for a percentage of their future earnings. […]

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The CEO of an ‘experiential education’ company explains why he bought one of America’s top Tour de France teams and why a YouTube video will never replace real travel

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LES HERBIERS, France — Last August we reported that one of the US’s top pro cycling teams was in danger of folding unless it came up with $7 million within a week, which was kind of crazy considering its star rider had just finished second in the world’s preeminent bicycle race. It wasn’t fake news, […]

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The 34 colleges that produced the most US presidents

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Some colleges have a pretty decent track record when it comes to producing presidential alumni. Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, the College of William & Mary, West Point, and the University of Pennsylvania have all taught more than one student that went on to become president of the United States. But plenty of other […]

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The founder of one of China’s hottest startups explains how getting too much press and customers early on nearly sunk the company

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Chinese education startup VIPKid, which connects native English-speaking teachers with Chinese students, raised $500 million in April for a valuation of over $3 billion. But a year after the company launched in 2014, it had a unusual crisis that nearly derailed the company, CEO and founder Cindy Mi told Business Insider. During its pilot stage, […]

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The gaokao is China’s notoriously tough entrance exam, that can also get you into western universities — check out its punishing questions

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China’s version of the American SAT and British A-level exams takes place in June every year. It’s called the gaokao, and is known as one of the toughest exams in the world. Lots of western universities now take Chinese students based on their gaokao scores, rather than other standardized tests. Scroll down to see past […]

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A $1 billion Gates Foundation-backed education initiative failed to help students, according to a new report — here’s what happened

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A seven-year education initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation centered on improving teacher effectiveness didn’t work, according to a new report from RAND. The initiative, called the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching, didn’t improve student graduation rates or schools’ ability to retain effective teachers. The Gates Foundation believes that while the initiative […]

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Here are the top 3 qualities you need to succeed, according to a high school dropout who became a venture capitalist at one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent firms

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Cyan Banister is a self-taught engineer, entrepreneur, and angel investor. Banister made early bets on companies like Uber, SpaceX, and Postmates. Now, she manages multi-millionaire dollar deals at Peter Thiel’s venture firm Founders Fund. But Banister didn’t have a traditional education: She dropped out of high school as a teenager amid issues at home, and […]

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Top tech talent is losing interest in working for Facebook — and the company’s tough year in headlines might be the cause

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Students from universities like Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Yale, and Georgia Tech are losing interest in working at Facebook according to a new study by education software company Piazza. Piazza surveyed students from leading universities for the past few years. In 2018, student interest in working for Facebook had dropped by 4 percent. Students from universities […]

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6 ways college is different in the US and the UK

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College in the United Kingdom looks very different than the United States, despite a shared language and history. UK college students pay less for education, have a different grading system, and spend less time completing their degrees compared to American students. Whether you’re preparing to study abroad or are just curious about the cultural differences, […]

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Melinda Gates says the early rise of ‘male-focused’ computer games is a big reason there are fewer female computer science graduates today than in the 80s and 90s

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Melinda Gates says that gaming is a big reason for a decrease in the number of women in tech in the last three to four decades, she told Molly Wood in an interview with Marketplace. More specifically, she said, it was the types of games that were released in the early years of personal computers […]