As their name suggests, research universities share one primary characteristic: Their overarching mission is to conduct new research. The American Association of Universities defines a research ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. Universities are often at the forefront of history, using innovative technology to make strides on everything ...

As researchers continue making strides toward building quantum computers that will perform computations exponentially faster than today’s technology, universities like the University of Maryland (UMD) ...

While some colleges allow students to simply apply as engineering majors, others want them to specify their preferred niche: ...

Policymakers at all levels of government are struggling to thoughtfully harness data in the service of public values. Many public servants grew up in an era of firmly separate disciplines: You were ...

Unlike the West, where universities are still agonizing over how students use AI in their work, top universities in China are going all in. Just two years ago, Lorraine He, now a 24-year-old law ...

Zócalo Public Square is a magazine of ideas from Arizona State University Knowledge Enterprise. In 2001, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced it was going to put the university’s entire ...

LOS ANGELES, August 12: Disney has signed up Carnegie Mellon University in the U.S. and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich to establish collaborative labs to conduct research and ...

* Per the 2022-2023 final release data in IPEDS ‡ The median salary for workers with 10 or more years of experience per Payscale. Capitol Technology University is a STEM-based institution located in ...

While businesses collectively paid $814 million in ransomware in 2024, one sector saw attacks surge 23% in the first half of 2025 alone: higher education. This sharp increase reflects the challenge of ...

All over the world, universities produce vast quantities of research. A great deal of this has the potential to make a difference in people’s lives: through the creation of new businesses and jobs, ...

As technology becomes increasingly pervasive in American life, universities across the United States have been devising ways to teach students how to grapple with the consequences on society. Now, 21 ...