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Byline: Jeffrey Selingo In a few weeks, selective colleges will announce their application totals for the year along with the usual superlatives to describe their recruits. The talking points will [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. SelingoAdam Grant, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and best-selling author, recently reminded all of us who didn't leave college with perfect grades not [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. SelingoAs technology permeates our daily lives, the societal benefits of a digital society are coming under greater scrutiny. Even some rank-and-file employees in Silicon Valley are beginning [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Americans expect a lot from their colleges and universities. They want higher education to prepare students for jobs and as citizens in a democratic society. At [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Selingo Jeffrey Selingo is the author of 'There Is Life After College' and a special adviser and professor of practice at Arizona State University. In a few weeks, [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo As high school seniors begin to file the first of their college applications in the coming weeks, many find the admissions process frustrating and full of [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo It's almost impossible to drive down the interstate, walk through an airport or surf the web without seeing advertisements for a master of business administration degree. [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo A fundamental transformation is underway in how we access education throughout our lives. Rather than plug into the formal structures of traditional colleges and universities when [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo It's college rankings season, and if you look at the top of the listings from U.S. News & World Report to the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo College is increasingly seen by high school students as a means to an end: getting a job. Since the Great Recession, surveys of teenagers - and [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Over the next few weeks, more than 2 million recent high school graduates will start college. This time of year is full of emotion - sadness [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Earlham College in Indiana might lack a national brand name, but as Rick Seltzer pointed out in the online publication Inside Higher Ed recently, it's 'not [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo What do top colleges have against transfer students? In May, Princeton University announced that it accepted 13 transfer students for this fall's freshman class. And while [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Predictions about higher education's future often result in two very different visions about what is next for colleges and universities. In one camp: those who paint [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo As college students nationwide work in part-time jobs or internships this summer, it's unlikely many will think about how they're using their undergraduate courses on the [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Talk to any high school counselor advising students applying to a top college these days and they will probably tell you the same thing: It's like [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo More than 3 million students will graduate from U.S. high schools this month, and two-thirds of them will head off to college next fall. If history [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo As this year's college graduates transition from school to career, they are entering one of the healthiest job markets in decades for those with newly minted [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Commencement season is winding down on college campuses nationwide - that time of year when words of wisdom are shared with graduates by speakers from all [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Two decades ago, when I was a student in a part-time master's degree program at Johns Hopkins University, I would hurry from my office twice a [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo I first met Scott Cowen in Houston a few days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, flooding much of the city. Cowen was president [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo As another academic year winds down on campuses nationwide, the news about the financial underpinning of colleges and universities keeps getting worse. Two studies out in [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo In the movie 'The Graduate,' the young character played by Dustin Hoffman is given a simple piece of job advice from his father's friend in a [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo The college admissions season is coming to a close and once again, the results demonstrate the growing divide in American higher education between the haves and [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo By now, college acceptances (or rejections) are in the hands of high school seniors. Over the next few weeks, those who haven't already decided where they [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo While some high school seniors planning to head off to college in the fall already know where they are going, the next six weeks will be [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo A few years ago, I attended an internship recruitment presentation by Goldman Sachs at the University of Pennsylvania. It was early in the fall semester, but [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo About three-fourths of students who attend four-year colleges graduate with loan debt. That's up from about half of students three decades ago. Whether students have debt [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Often lost in the discussion about Amazon's search for a second headquarters is the war for talent likely to occur when the company begins hiring 50,000 [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo During a recent assembly at the elementary school my two daughters attend, a visitor asked how many children planned to go to college. Nearly every hand [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Over the next several months, along with college admissions offers, high school seniors will get financial aid letters from schools that illustrate how they might pay [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Politicians and reporters often trot out recent college graduates struggling to pay off their student loan debt to illustrate the dangers of runaway college costs. But [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo In a Washington Post article examining the admissions process at the University of Maryland, reporter Nick Anderson mentioned that instead of rejecting some applicants, the university [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo When President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this year to substantially increase apprenticeships in the United States, he joined a line of recent presidents [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo This is the time of year when college majors probably garner the most attention - from high school seniors who often need to pick one to [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo President Trump's rhetoric about the decline of the working class blames trade, immigration and the outsourcing of American jobs overseas for the decline of the U.S. [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Over the past two decades, the wealth divide has grown enormously among U.S. colleges and universities, in much the same way it has among corporations and [...]

Many colleges ask you to choose a major as early as your senior year of high school, on your admissions application. Yet there's a good chance you'll change your mind. [...]