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Harvard has pulled ahead of Princeton in the latest edition of the U.S. News & World Report university rankings, while a stronger emphasis on graduation rates drove other changes.

Yale University says it has hired retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal to teach a graduate level seminar on leadership on its New Haven, Conn., c ...

Georgia beat out Pennsylvania State University, West Virginia University and University of Florida which were the top party schools over the ...

A Delaware man charged with faking his way into Harvard was accepted at Stanford University after he was kicked out of the Ivy League school, ...

Glendale police said a woman invented a kidnapping hoax to avoid telling her parents that she had been lying to them about college.

A senior on the Virginia men's lacrosse team was charged Monday with the slaying of a fellow student on the women's team, stunning ...

When Duke University's Cathy Davidson announced her grading plan for a seminar she would be offering this semester, she attracted ...

When it began, the ruckus over Sarah Palin's speaking fee at the state university in Turlock - and the school's attempts to keep it secret - had a comic undertone.

Sarah Palin is expected to raise nearly $200,000 for an appearance on a California State University campus in June. But the school foundation hosting the $500-a-plate event won't say what they are paying her, or even how much the party will cost - and that has angered a San Francisco lawmaker who is using the opportunity to push his bill for greater transparency by public university foundations.

A sharply rising number of foreign investors are looking for Los Angeles pre foreclosures and other bargain-priced properties. A number of them are Chinese parents looking for houses for their children who are entering U.S. universities.