Colleges

Larger endowments — which tend to invest more in private equity and venture capital — didn't do as well as smaller ones that stuck to investment basics.

Their customer base is shrinking and there's no appetite for raising prices, aka tuition.

Sometimes schools will take private scholarship money and subtract that from its institutional grant. It’s known as scholarship displacement, and a handful of states are passing laws to end it.

Harvard Med joins a number of prestigious schools boycotting the rankings, saying education is too complex to be ranked numerically.

International students are more likely to pay sticker price for a degree.

Distributing abortion medication requires resources that some schools may not have.

About 36 million people in the U.S. have some college education, but no degree, yet they still owe money on student loans.

Academics want it. Critics want to restrict it. The issue could affect a state's ability to recruit educators.

The rankings created by U.S. News have become very influential, but critics say prospective students should do more research.

The investment firm is buying American Campus Communities, the largest developer, owner, and manager of student housing in the U.S.