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A college student from New York was paid between $1,500 and $2,500 to stand in for at least a half dozen students attending a prestigious Long Island high school and take the SAT exam for them, a prosecutor said Tuesday in announcing criminal charges in the case.

Two University of Maryland students were burned Monday afternoon after an explosion sparked a small fire in a chemistry lab, authorities said.

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.

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

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.

Seton Hill University plans to give every first year undergraduate student a 13" MacBook and an iPad. Just last month, George Fox University in Oregon also announced that it plans to give its new students a choice between a MacBook or an iPad.

Big changes in the student loan program will help make college more affordable for students and their debt load more manageable ...

The demonstrations, which are backed by a range of groups, are taking place on college campuses and at public schools.