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An 18-year-old Bowie State University student was fatally stabbed Thursday night by her roommate during a fight in a campus dormitory, Maryland State Police said early Friday.

A 19-year-old British student took her love for the Korean culture to new heights when she had her tongue surgically lengthened so she could speak the language better, the Telegraph reported.

California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Monday a bill allowing illegal immigrants to receive privately funded scholarships to attend the state's public colleges and universities.

The gap in cancer death rates between college graduates and those who only went to high school is widening, the American Cancer Society reported ...

Mike Rose, a professor of education at UCLA, says it makes complete sense for people to be concerned about the economic benefits of college. But, he says, there are many other benefits that make going to college worth it.

The U.S. Education Department has issued tougher rules regulating and financing for-profit colleges, whose students disproportionately default on college loans.

I have been awarded a golden ticket to the heart of Silicon Valley: the Thiel Fellowship. The catch? For two years, I cannot be enrolled as a full-time student at an academic institution.

American Sign Language is close to surpassing German as the third most studied foreign language at America's colleges and universities.

Thousands of students and lecturers are demonstrating in central London against plans to almost treble tuition fees and cut university funding in England. The National Union of Students says about ...

Community college students will find it easier to transfer to California's four-year universities under bills signed Wednesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.