When classified by their net price and the percentage of their students who were subsequently repaying student loans, for-profit four-year colleges were the worst-performing institutions among all ...

Headlines often mention the ongoing power struggle between President Donald Trump’s administration and private colleges such as Columbia University and Harvard University. But such elite universities ...

Your questions, answered by experts. By The New York Times Illustrations by Sean Dong Updated Sept. 30, 2025 Leer en español There are few challenges facing students more daunting than applying and ...

Even though for-profit and nonprofit colleges work in similar ways, the way they earn and spend money are vastly different. For-profit colleges focus on revenue and earnings from tuition because those ...

Columbia University is an Ivy League school and located in Manhattan, so it's perhaps not surprising how expensive tuition there is. You don’t need to tell anyone that college is expensive nowadays.

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