Johns Hopkins University again tops all U.S. colleges and universities for research expenditures, spending $1.55 billion in fiscal year 2007...The University of California, San Francisco, with $843 million, and the University of Wisconsin, with $620 million, ranked behind Johns Hopkins University in research expenditures...
The number of doctorates awarded nationwide rose by 9 percent last year, says a report to be released today by the Council of Graduate Schools. The increase is up from a 5-percent boost between 2005 and 2006 and is the largest jump in the last seven years...
Duke University's longtime financial-aid director discusses the state of his profession - and its future...
Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business announced ambitious plans Monday to develop a network of deep partnerships and branch campuses- what the dean calls a "physical presence of real scope and scale" - in Dubai, London, New Delhi, Shanghai and St. Petersburg. "It started with the intellectual question," said Blair Sheppard, the business school's dean. "You have to take a step back and say, 'If you wanted to be truly global, where must you be?'"...