Five percent. That is the average rate of acceptance at an Ivy League school these days. Not that the odds are much better at the so-called Alt-Ivies, a ballooning list of what were once considered ...

The 2024-2025 school year saw a growing number of students at campuses nationwide. Undergraduate enrollment was up by 3.2% in the spring of 2025, according to the National Student Clearinghouse ...

The University of Delaware has been ranked #43 among the top public schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. The 2026 edition of the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings evaluates more than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An annual tradition, each fall is the release of the latest “Best Colleges” guide by U.S. News & World Report. First published in ...

The publication looked at 17 different factors including graduation rate, full-time faculty, student-faculty ratio, standardized tests, peer assessment, and more. U.S. News also created specialized ...

Penn State is tied for the 26th top national public schools, and tied for 59th overall, in the U.S. News & World Report's 2026 "Best Colleges" ranking announced earlier this week. The university rose ...

Eighteen California higher learning institutions earned the highest score — five stars — in Money's 2025 Best Colleges in America study. Money rated the country’s top 732 colleges using 25 factors: ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University remains the highest-ranked public university in Indiana and, for the third straight year, places as the state’s only public institution among the nation’s top ...

Applying to college is always a stressful experience — but students beginning their search this year are doing so at an especially tumultuous time in higher education. U.S. colleges are bracing for a ...