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Interested in exploring the rankings of these schools and others? Visit usnews.com on Sept. 10. Applying to college is a journey that involves finding the right school, submitting applications and then – if you're lucky – choosing among the acceptance letters and financial aid awards to find that place you'll call home for the next few years. To steer you in the right direction, U.S. News surveys colleges and universities each year and ranks nearly 1,400 of them in different categories according to our methodology. Here, we offer a sneak peek of the 2014 Best Colleges rankings. Read more...

By Sarah Cruickshank. Universities need to offer international students ways to cope during labour dispute with service officers. For a country built on successful immigration policies, it's troubling to see unnecessary obstacles placed in front of international students. These individuals are driven to pursue higher education, eager to participate in Canadian culture, and willing to contribute to our Canadian economy. 
A large number of potential international students are struggling with delays in visa processing times. This is a direct result of the labour dispute between the Canadian government and the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers, the union that represents the staff at the many Citizenship and Immigration Canada offices. These students may be compelled to delay their studies or to pursue degrees in other countries. And that's likely to present them with a number of additional challenges. Read more...

By Matthew DeLuca. College enrollment in 2012 declined by nearly a half million students compared to a year earlier, according to new figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau, with students over the age of 25 leading the miniature exodus from higher learning.
Enrollment at colleges and universities among students aged 25 and older dropped by 419,000 last year, while enrollment among younger students dropped at about a tenth of that rate, according to the statistics released Tuesday.
The drop-off comes amid an overall increase in college enrollment, with 3.2 million new students entering classrooms between 2006 and 2011, according to the Census Bureau. More...

By Jon Marcus. Facing skeptical customers, declining enrollment, an antiquated financial model that is hemorrhaging money, and new kinds of low-cost competition, some U.S. universities and colleges may be going the way of the music and journalism industries.
Their predicament has become so bad that financial analysts, regulators and bond-rating agencies are beginning to warn that many colleges and universities could close.
“A growing percentage of our colleges and universities are in real financial trouble,” the financial consulting firm Bain & Company concluded in a report—one-third of them, to be exact, according to Bain, which found that these institutions’ operating costs are rising faster than revenues and investment returns can cover them. Suite...

I talked with Dan Hickey about this — it’s an interesting alternative to MOOCs, and the topic is relevant for this blog.
In the fall semester of 2013, IU School of Education Researcher and Associate Professor Dr. Daniel Hickey will be leading an online course. The 11-week course will begin on September 9 and is being called a ‘BOOC’ or “Big Open Online Course”. The main topic being taught is ”Educational Assessment: Practices, Principles, and Policies”. Here students will develop “WikiFolios”, endorse each other’s work, and earn bonafide Digital Badges based on the work they complete. Suite...

Par Pierre Magnan. Coursera, la plateforme de Mooc’s (les cours universitaires gratuits en ligne), connaît une croissance fulgurante. En un peu plus d'un an, quelque 4,3 millions d'étudiants se sont inscrits sur ce site. De quoi, pour les deux fondateurs, imaginer tous les développements possibles.
Les Mooc’s sont en plein développement, comme nous le disions ici même. Ces plateformes d’enseignement en ligne qui permettent de suivre des cours par Internet fédèrent de plus en plus d’étudiants dans le monde entier. Parmi ces plateformes aux noms improbables (Edx, Udacity…), l’une d’elles se détache, Coursera. Suite...

Par Assma Maad.La prestigieuse école accorde les meilleures bourses aux étudiants étrangers désargentés, leur montant s’élève en moyenne à 50.000 euros par an. Étudier aux États-Unis peut s’avérer extrêmement coûteux. Destination favorite des étudiants internationaux, le coût annuel pour une année d’étude peut atteindre près de 27.000 euros. Sans compter les frais annexes, de logement, de transports, de nourriture et d’assurance… ce qui en fait le deuxième pays où les études sont les plus chères au monde, derrière l’Australie.
Selon une étude HSBC sur le coût d’une scolarité universitaire à l’étranger, un étudiant sans aide financière à l’université de Chicago devra débourser près de 46.800 euros. Une somme uniquement destinée aux frais de scolarité. Si l’argent fait largement la sélection, les universités américaines ont aussi, au cours des années, mis en place un système de bourse pour aider les étudiants désargentés les plus talentueux. Suite...