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The 20 colleges with the most school spirit

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There’s a number of ways students can show pride in their school, but nothing shows school spirit quite like showing up on gameday. Whether it’s for a basketball game, football game, or a smaller niche sport, students celebrate their schools by covering themselves head-to-toe in school colors and filling stadium seats. They tailgate long before […]

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Ex-Ivy League admissions officers dissect an essay that got a teen into 5 Ivies and Stanford

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High-school senior Brittany Stinson recently shared with Business Insider a humorous admissions essay that got her into five Ivy League schools and Stanford. That essay — which got her into the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Cornell and Stanford — went viral. In the essay, Stinson reflected on her inquisitive personality, told against […]

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Mike Pence is calling for the federal government to repay veterans who spent millions to attend ITT Tech

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In a letter to US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Robert McDonald, Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence urged the federal government to repay veterans who used military benefits to attend ITT Tech, the for-profit college that abruptly closed in early September, Politico reported. Pence called for a full refund of all GI Bill […]

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More than 30 college football players are reportedly suspended for buying supplies in their school’s bookstore

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More than 30 football players at Charleston Southern University have reportedly been suspended for a game after they spent book money, given by the school, on non-book supplies at the bookstore, Ariya Massoudi of the FSView first reported. Senior running back Ben Robinson posted a message to Facebook on Thursday explaining the situation. “30+ players […]

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Mark Zuckerberg just invested in an Indian startup that teaches kids math and science (FB)

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Mark Zuckerberg has invested in Byju, an Indian startup that teaches kids subjects like math and science with a mobile app. Zuckerberg’s philanthropic organization, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is leading the $50 million investment, along with other venture capital firms, according to The Economic Times. It’s the second investment Facebook’s CEO has made through the […]

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‘A very unusual gentleman’ who worked in a university library for nearly 50 years donated $4 million to the school upon his death

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A University of New Hampshire (UNH) librarian, who spent a lifetime living frugally, surprised the school by donating his entire estate, worth $4 million, to the school, The Boston Globe Reported Robert Morin, who died a little over a year ago, graduated from UNH in 1963 and worked in the school’s Dimond Library as a […]

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25 colleges where students love life

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When choosing where to go to college, academics isn’t the only factor to consider. College years are formative for young adults, so the extracurricular, recreational, and social opportunities offered by schools play an important role in the overall collegiate experience. Business Insider included student-life rankings in its recent list of the 50 best colleges in […]

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Here’s what’s in store for the 40,000 students left without a school now that ITT has closed

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ITT Technical Educational Services Inc. abruptly announced on Tuesday that it will cease operations at all campuses. The college’s closure, which affects 40,000 students and 8,000 employees, is one of the largest in US history. The Department of Education held a press conference to discuss next steps for affected students, urging them to consider the […]

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Here’s how much people earn 10 years after attending the 25 best colleges in America

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Business Insider recently released its annual ranking of the 50 best colleges in America, emphasizing metrics like graduation rate, student-life experience, and post-graduation salary. Our top 25 schools feature a lot of familiar institutions — Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, and MIT all make the cut. But of the best schools in the country, whose graduates earn […]

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One of the biggest ways college students are ripped off is getting out of control

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College affordability has recently become the preeminent issue in higher education, as student-debt figures have hit staggering levels. But most conversations center around the ballooning tuition costs, rather than a less-well-known source that strains the wallets of college students: textbooks. Since 1977, the price of college textbooks has more than tripled the rate of inflation, […]

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A 400-page report describes the ‘private hell’ and sexual abuse that at least 51 students suffered through at an elite New England prep school

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A report released by an independent investigator on Thursday details the widespread sexual abuse that students at St. George’s School, an elite prep school in Rhode Island, suffered through during the 1970s and ’80s, The New York Times reported. At least 51 students were abused by employees and 10 were abused by students, according to […]

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Georgetown University is giving priority admission to the descendants of slaves it sold to fund the school

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Georgetown University will award preferential status in the application process to descendants of slaves whose labor benefited the university, The New York Times reported. In 1838 the school sold 272 men, women, and children for about $3.3 million in today’s dollars. The money helped keep the university open during a period of financial difficulty. The […]

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Why Princeton is the best college in the US

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Business Insider recently released its annual list of the 50 best colleges in America — and this year a new-and-improved methodology put Princeton University in the top position. Princeton’s Ivy League reputation precedes it in terms of prestige, but the school earns its stripes as an elite institution on its merits. Business Insider’s methodology focused […]

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It looks like the beginning of the end for ITT Tech

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For-profit educator ITT Technical Institute announced Monday that it will no longer accept any new enrollments, according to a notice at the top its website. The news came four days after the US Department of Education (ED) imposed sanctions on ITT Education Services, the college chain’s parent company, barring the school from enrolling students who […]

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The 25 best private colleges in America

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Business Insider recently released its annual list of the best colleges in America, which emphasized schools with high graduation rates, early-career earnings, and top-notch student life experiences. The ranking also took into account the annual net cost of each school — the average cost of tuition for all students that applied for financial aid, after […]

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The state with the highest teenage birth rate now requires public colleges teach students how to avoid pregnancy

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Public colleges and universities in Arkansas are starting to unveil their state-mandated plans to prevent unplanned pregnancies, NPR reported. A powerful video, for example, emerged at Arkansas Tech University, one that every freshman is required to watch. Produced by the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, it features men and women who had teenage pregnancies describe […]