After hearing that William Peace University might put a large chunk of its $35 million endowment into neighboring real estate, I decided to take a look at other university endowments to see how they compare.
Napoleon Melton Jr., 30, never imagined he would receive a degree from a for-profit university. From his senior year in high school on, he had daydreamed about earning an MBA from a traditional program.
Harvard University once again had the most freshman Merit Scholars in 2007, according to calculations drawn from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation's annual report, which...
Prolonged recession might force some private institutions out of business, experts say Financial experts everywhere agree that the economy appears headed toward a recession.
A South Carolina textile tycoon who died last month willed Furman University 45 percent of the revenues from his estate, but neither the amount of the gift nor its date of arrival is known...
The nonprofit Touro College announced last week that it had signed a deal to sell its 7,500-student online division to a private-equity fund, in a transaction that signals investors' continuing...
The average tuition-discount rate for the fall of 2005 was roughly the same at private colleges as it was two years earlier, according to a survey by the National Association of College and...
In March the American University of Afghanistan will open its doors here, introducing a new kind of higher education to the country. A private institution with an international faculty that will...
The disproportionate wealth of a handful of elite private universities "offers a striking manifestation of the contemporary American tendency of the rich to get much richer," says a correspondent...
Two private institutions are contemplating a merger. Officials of Chapman University and Western University of Health Sciences, both located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area...
Private institutions offer more, and the gap is becoming unbridgeable You're a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. It's a prestigious university with big-time resources and...
Touro College completed the sale of its separately accredited online division last week, for the previously undisclosed price of $190-million. The sum is about five times the value of...
Administrators at Georgetown University shut down the university's e-mail system and altered the accounts of thousands of students last week to erase a mass e-mail message from the university...
Getting accepted by an elite private college means everything to some high-school seniors. So they study hard, figuring that their grades and test scores will be scrutinized by tough admissions...
The University of Phoenix just keeps on growing. The national for-profit chain, whose growth has been closely watched in higher education, reports that enrollment in its degree programs rose by...
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