The government pays out billions in Pell Grants each year. But critics say there are cases of fraud where students don't use the money for education.

The Thiel Foundation announced 24 winners of its first fellowship. Each winner gets $100,000 to sit out of college for two years.

Written by Steve Henn and Amy Scott Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and one of the first investors in Facebook, is a billionaire and a Stanf…

Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, discusses the education problem his organization can solve and technology's role in schools.

Kids are forever indebted to their parents. But when does your kids' money become their own?

After two years of stock market gains, big donors are opening their checkbooks for colleges and universities.

As college tuition — and student debt — keep rising, more people are asking whether it's worth the cost. The Pew Research Center put that question to the public in a new survey.

Facing budget cuts, California and other states are considering letting their most selective research universities set their own, higher tuitions.

Waitlisted college applicants might despair to learn that some schools have waiting lists twice as large as their freshman class. But plenty of…

This week students must finally make up their minds about where they'll go to college — and colleges break out the wait lists.