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Elite status having nothing to do with the student experience rubs off on perceptions -- even if this is irrational, study finds.

Holding tuition flat since 2012-13 has raised the land-grant university’s profile and helped it grow, but it is fueling competition for resources by academic departments -- and Purdue is still working to enroll more students from Indiana.

Backers say Westlake University, in Hangzhou, will use its autonomy to challenge leading Western science and technology institutions.

After two congressmen write to Texas A&M raising concerns that the Chinese-government backed Confucius Institutes are platforms for political propaganda and espionage, Texas A&M says it will close them.

Tens of thousands of Iranian students studied in the U.S. in the 1970s. New book tells how they helped unsettle the diplomatic relationship between Washington and Tehran in lead-up to Iranian Revolution.

Columbia and Trinity College start dual B.A. program modeled on an existing Columbia collaboration with France's Sciences Po.

Canada announces 24 scholars recruited to its universities from all over the world -- with more than half coming from the U.S.