An online start-up allows high-schoolers to find out what students really think about their colleges.

Is a corporate-sponsored marketing course a real academic service or a fake one?

A few college professors have started putting their textbooks online to protest the high prices that textbook publishers can get.

As thousands of students look to get into the schools of their choice, private educational consultants take up where overburdened high school guidance counselors leave off.

The endowment of Harvard University said Friday that it had earned an 8.6 percent return for the fiscal year, bringing the value of the foundation to $36.9 billion.

The University Small Business Patent Procedures Act is under increasing scrutiny by swelling ranks of critics, who charge that it has distorted the fundamental mission of universities.

Taking a step that professors may view as a bit counterproductive, some universities are doling out Apple iPhones and Internet-capable iPods to students.

Northeastern is using Kaplan Inc. to find students for, and help run, a special program for international students.

The Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, which secured more than $500 million in educational loans last year, announced that it would not offer loans for the coming academic year.

Between used books and pirated copies offered for illegal download, the textbook industry has begun to transition to other models of distribution and sales.