California's colleges and universities secured strong positions in new 2026 rankings from the Wall Street Journal, save for a notable exception that fell significantly behind. Out of 584 public and ...

A San Francisco Bay Area university earned a spot in the nation’s top five in the 2026 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings released Sept. 23. Stanford University tied Yale University at No. 4 for best ...

UC Berkeley was ranked the top public university in the nation and No. 5 overall on Forbes’ new list of top U.S. colleges. The Forbes list ranks colleges based on student return on investment, ...

College ranking systems are increasingly using measures of access, ROI and social contributions to assess educational quality. They're yielding some surprising results. The Washington Monthly magazine ...

Choosing the right step after high school is key — and for some, that means pursuing higher education. College-bound seniors, especially in today’s day and age, have a plethora of options to choose ...

The annual U.S. News Best Colleges rankings were released today, with top-ranked schools staying mostly steady from last edition as the methodology was largely unchanged. The top 10 National ...

The toughest college to get accepted to in the United States isn’t an Ivy League institution, Stanford University, or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It’s Minerva University, an independent ...