Admissions

Under “10 percent plan” in Texas, some switched high schools to get into top colleges. White students gained and minority students lost.

While most public and private institutions expect revenue increases for 2011, this year is foreboding for a significant percentage of private colleges.

Colleges love to complain about U.S. News, but a new survey documents the ways many of them use the magazine's findings.

When choosing a college, many prospective students opt for the easiest or closest choice. Would giving them better information make for wiser decisions?

In something of a turnabout, admissions professionals recently had the chance to rank U.S. News & World Report for its...

With some regularity, the mainstream press seems to love to scare would-be college students and parents with stories about how...

Four years ago, momentum appeared to be growing for competitive colleges to eliminate programs in which some high school students...

If marketing is evil, then we all should be devil’s advocates, writes W. Kent Barnds.