Applicants are assigned numbers for their test scores, activities, levels of hardship, race, gender and much else. The calculation is complicated.

College officials are looking for ways to limit students' travel to and from campus, including by eliminating spring break. While many students spent the break from classes at home or picked up extra hours at work, some made headlines last school year for partying in spite of the pandemic. 

FOX 46 has found out that the Carolinas are pretty far behind when it comes to responding to the 2020 U.S. Census.

A small study found signs of heart inflammation in some college athletes who had coronavirus, but the link needs further investigation.

More than 670 students, about 10 percent of the population at SUNY Oneonta, became infected, forcing the campus to be shut down.

Higher education institutions have become the latest coronavirus hot spots in the United States. One student’s story illustrates the issues with reopening.

Students discuss if a remote education is worth the high price of tuition.

The university's vice chancellor for student affairs said in a letter to students and staff Tuesday that his office has been notified of parties and "other blatant violations" of coronavirus safety guidelines.

A little more than a year ago, WeWork's parent company, The We Company, filed to take the co-working company public.

West Virginia University’s president has apologized after a photo posted to social media showed him shopping in a convenience store without a mask on.

The band admitted to “sexual misconduct, assault, theft, racism and injury to individuals and the Columbia community as a whole.”

A federal appeals court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in a closely watched case about the role of race in undergraduate admissions at Harvard University, where the outcome could reshape how selective colleges choose who gets a coveted acceptance letter.

University of Chicago English says it's only admitting Black studies Ph.D. candidates for 2021 admissions cycle, citing Black Lives Matter and the field's complicated history with regard to race.

Graduate students and RAs at the University of Michigan are on strike over the university's COVID-19 response.

Utopian-minded tech gurus promise they’ll solve all of academe’s problems. They won’t.