Jon Marcus

In a new attempt to judge the value of a higher education against which any campus can measure itself, the Gallup research organization will poll graduates nationwide about their success and happiness. The survey, which will begin this week, will ask 30,000 graduates of four-year universities questions that can help determine whether or not their […]

People who major in the humanities and social sciences don’t earn as much as their classmates in the physical and natural sciences, math, or engineering, but the gap is not as wide as has been portrayed. That’s the message of a new report from the Association of American Colleges and Universities, which represents liberal-arts colleges […]

Being named a top party school by the Princeton Review could cost a university an 8 to 9 percent decline in the percentage of out-of-state students who enroll. That’s among the conclusions of a new study that measures the impact on higher education of controversial annual college rankings. Being named one of the 25 best […]

A multibillion-dollar building boom is under way at U.S. universities and colleges—despite budget shortfalls and endowment decline. Some $11 billion in new facilities have sprung up on American campuses in each of the last two years—more than double what was spent on buildings a decade ago, according to the market-research firm McGraw-Hill Construction—even as schools […]

How Maryland held the line on college costs.