One bright spot in a brutal college-admissions season: More students are being accepted from wait lists at elite schools this year because colleges found it harder to predict how many graduating seniors would join the freshman class.

The medical school run by the Cleveland Clinic will offer a tuition-free education, in the hope that a substantial reduction of post-graduation debt will encourage top students to enter academic medicine.

The University of Chicago plans to establish a center for economics honoring the late economist Milton Friedman.

Hit by the sticker shock of a weak dollar, college students are steering clear of Western Europe and opting for study-abroad programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America -- destinations with currencies that haven't been as rough on the dollar.

There are smart job-hunting strategies that can pay off for spring grads -- as well as for already-employed twentysomethings hoping to hang onto their positions and even move up in this shaky business climate.

Has the U.S. created an "education bubble" fueled by easy money and overborrowing by families desperate to pay rising tuition costs? (Discuss.)

An education study refuted the argument that classroom gains by girls have come at the expense of boys.

In the wake of the Virginia Tech killings, universities are trying to keep an eye out for student writings that foretell campus violence. But their vigilance raises the prospect of infringing on students' rights.

Harvard students have caught start-up fever since Facebook -- founded when creator Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard in 2004 -- exploded in popularity. Current students and alumni are using the site as a business model.

Transitioning from life as a high-flying college senior to the bottom of a towering corporate totem pole can feel like cruel and unusual punishment to recent graduates. Six tips for getting the best start in your first job.

Among 800 or so superdelegates to the Democratic presidential nominating convention are three college students whose votes might help decide the party's nominee.