Which college will you thrive at? Choosing between a private and public university is a big decision. Both options can offer a quality college education, but your day-to-day experiences and real-life ...

The University of California, Davis, is No. 10 among the nation’s top public universities in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025, published today (Oct. 9). UC Davis was tied for ...

Public universities need their own accreditor. These institutions are the backbone of American higher education. They serve the largest share of students by far, and state-supported colleges and ...

Public universities in six southern states have come together to create a new higher education accreditor that will offer an alternative to existing nationally recognized accrediting agencies ...

T he headline of a recent essay in The Hill asked if there was an economic case for saving regional public universities. It reminded us of a similar headline in The Chronicle a few years ago (“Public ...

The college counseling company IvyWise recently hosted a webinar titled “A Look Inside Public Universities.” The discussion was hosted by two IvyWise counselors, both of whom attended public schools ...

Many regional public colleges were hit hard by the pandemic. At a few such institutions, enrollment declines and financial distress have been so serious that questions have emerged about their ...

The best online public universities are those that perform well across a variety of metrics we considered in the categories of credibility, affordability, student outcomes, student experience and the ...