Doug Belkin covers higher education and national news out of the Chicago bureau of The Wall Street Journal.

Two San Diego universities were named in the top 50 of the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse’s “2025 Best Colleges in the U.S ...

According to a recently released list from Forbes Magazine, U-M ranks among the best "new Ivies.' See the full list ...

The list included 10 public and 10 private universities, including one in Massachusetts, that Forbes calls "the new Ivies." ...

Computer science engineering fuels innovation, energizing everything from artificial intelligence to cybersecurity. The ...

Female bonobos linked up even when they didn’t have close ties, supporting one another against the males and cementing their ...

Cornell University has canceled a performance by R&B star Kehlani after complaints to the Ivy League school's president that she expressed antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiments.

We tracked the education of Xi Jinping and how he ascended from farm hand to chemical engineering student and later one of the world's most powerful leaders.

Defending NCAA champion Stanford, Arkansas, Florida State, South Carolina, Oregon and Texas each earned No. 1 seeds as the ...