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Oklahoma is No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason college football poll for the 10th time, edging Alabama for the top spot.

A 19-year-old British student took her love for the Korean culture to new heights when she had her tongue surgically lengthened so she could speak the language better, the Telegraph reported.

California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Monday a bill allowing illegal immigrants to receive privately funded scholarships to attend the state's public colleges and universities.

A federal indictment unsealed today charges a Cambridge man with computer intrusion, fraud and data theft in computer hacking incidents that targeted the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR, a not-for-profit archive of scientific journals and academic work.

A building at Boston College has been evacuated after reports of a chemical explosion inside a classroom.

The former president of the University of New Mexico has become the latest academic accused of helping run an online prostitution ring.

Students who are night owls have worse grades in high school and the beginning years of college, research has shown.

The gap in cancer death rates between college graduates and those who only went to high school is widening, the American Cancer Society reported ...

Some private liberal arts colleges are offering graduates help repaying loans.

Mike Rose, a professor of education at UCLA, says it makes complete sense for people to be concerned about the economic benefits of college. But, he says, there are many other benefits that make going to college worth it.