Colleges | featured news

Roughly 40 percent of students planning engineering and science majors end up switching to other subjects or failing to get any degree.

Katie, a senior at Plainfield North who asked for her last name to be withheld, felt confident that she was prepared for her AP Statistics exam. But when she realized that she may have overestimated her readiness halfway through the test, she decided to look at someone else’s paper. She said she reasoned with herself that she had put in the work.

At the County College of Morris, a history teacher showed little patience with Philip Garber Jr. when he raised his hand.

LSU and Alabama are the top two teams in the country one month before their game in Tuscaloosa. The SEC West rivals held the first two spots in The Associated Press college football poll released Sunday as the second-ranked Crimson Tide jumped past No. 3 Oklahoma.

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

The visual appeal of spectacular campuses comes through varying combinations of awe-inspiring architecture, landscaping and surroundings.

Of all the punches thrown at Gov. Rick Perry during last week's Republican presidential debate, few landed harder than questions about Perry's support for a Texas bill allowing in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants.

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.

Harvard University received the No. 1 spot on US News & World Report's 2012 rankings of top US academic research institutions, followed by Princeton University and Yale University.

Texas A&M’s president, R. Bowen Loftin, sent a letter to the Big 12 board chairman notifying the league it will formally withdraw, very likely on Tuesday.