The toughest college to get accepted to in the United States isn’t an Ivy League institution, Stanford University, or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It’s Minerva University, an independent ...

Eighteen California higher learning institutions earned the highest score — five stars — in Money's 2025 Best Colleges in America study. Money rated the country’s top 732 colleges using 25 factors: ...

A recent study ranked the top universities and colleges in the U.S. for 2026 with one California university making it to the top 10. The study, done by financial site WalletHub, looked at a number of ...

Rather than lowering the bar, California public higher educational institutions should consider selective mergers while ...

About a decade ago, Buffy Tanner and her colleagues at Shasta College in Northern California decided to rethink how they ...

California’s top universities can pay their athletes directly — a dramatic shift in college sports that blurs the line between amateur and professional play. Schools have yet to say how much ...

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Food assistance and basic needs programs across California’s colleges and universities braced for an influx of students on ...