Top 125 Best University News, Reviews & Resources

• 6 Myths About Choosing a College Major - The New York Times.
• 10 best universities in the world 2024 - QS World University Rankings - "Institutions in both Europe and America dominate the top 10 rankings, many of which received perfect scores of 100 in indicators such as: ‘Academic reputation’, ‘Employer reputation’ and ‘Faculty/Student ratio’."
• 10 hardest universities to get into - The Telegraph.
• 15 Colleges that Have the Best Return on Investment - Harvard Isn't One of Them - "Spoiler alert: only three universities on this list are Ivies."
• 16 Best Backpacks for College - Wired.
• 40 Alternatives to College - Don't want to go to college? Don't want crushing student loan debt? Afraid you won't be able to get a job otherwise? 40 Alternatives to College will save you money, geet you greater experience than college would have.
• 400 TOP WORLD UNIVERSITIES - Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings 2014-2015 (powered by Thompson Reuters).
• 2016 Top 100 world universities by reputation - the list in full - The Telegraph.
• 2018 Top 200 universities in the world - the table - The Guardian.
• 2019 college admissions bribery scandal - a scandal arose over a criminal conspiracy to influence undergraduate admissions decisions at several top American universities. The investigation into the conspiracy was nicknamed Operation Varsity Blues. At least 53 people have been charged as part of the conspiracy, a number of whom pleaded guilty or agreed to plead guilty. Thirty-three parents of college applicants are accused of paying more than $25 million between 2011 and 2018 to William Rick Singer, organizer of the scheme, who used part of the money to fraudulently inflate entrance exam test scores and bribe college officials.
• 2020 Top Global Universities - QS World University Rankings.
• 2020 World University Rankings - "The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020 includes almost 1,400 universities across 92 countries, standing as the largest and most diverse university rankings ever to date. The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook."
• 2023 World University Rankings - "The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 include 1,799 universities across 104 countries and regions, making them the largest and most diverse university rankings to date. The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook."
• 2024 World University Rankings - "The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 include 1,906 universities across 108 countries and regions. The table is based on our new WUR 3.0 methodology, which includes 18 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook. This year’s ranking analysed more than 134 million citations across 16.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 68,402 scholars globally. Overall, we collected 411,789 datapoints from more than 2,673 institutions that submitted data."
• 2024 world’s top universities ranked: Europe claims 2 of the top 3 spots - "The QS World University Rankings have been released, with MIT at the top of the list for the 13th consecutive year, followed by Imperial College London and the University of Oxford."
• A student's guide to keeping track of your finances - "Being good with money takes practice."
• Academia - community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.
• ACADEMIC RANKING OF WORLD UNIVERSITIES - since 2003. More than 1000 universities are actually ranked by ARWU every year and the best 500 are published on the web. ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank world universities.
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• Addalock Portable Door Lock - since 2021. "The Original Portable Door Lock, Travel Lock, AirBNB Lock, School Lockdown Lock." The Addalock is a portable door lock that can be easily installed and removed in seconds on almost any hinged door that opens inwards giving you added privacy once you are locked behind it. Addalock can be installed on the front door or any other doors of your home where you require that additional privacy. The Addalock is an ideal travel lock that you can use on your hotel/motel or rental unit and ideal for students away at college. The Addalock is made from chrome plated carbon steel and together with its unique shape makes it adjustable to almost any door thickness. Each Addalock comes with a travel pouch. The Addalock became TikTok famous last year as an easy-to-use and inexpensive gadget for travel safety, especially for solo female travelers. For $17.95 a pop, it's a no-brainer.
• adsum - used to indicate one's presence usually in answer to a roll call: (Latin) I am present.
• AMERICA'S BEST COLLEGE BUYS - Forbes.
• AMERICA'S TOP COLLEGES - Forbes.
• America’s Top Universities in 2024, Ranked - "Forbes’ annual America’s Top Colleges rankings provides valuable insights by evaluating U.S. universities on 14 key metrics, including median debt and salary, to determine which colleges offer the best educational, financial, and career outcomes for all students. This chart shows the top 25 American colleges in 2024 from Forbes’ top 100 list, as well as their respective median post-graduate 10-year salary and median debt after graduation."
• An Expensive Law Degree, and No Place to Use It - The New York Times.
• An Outsider Takes an Inside Look at the Oxford ‘Chums’ Who Run the U.K. - "Simon Kuper has written a book that captures Boris Johnson and other future Conservative politicians when they were ambitious and misbehaving undergrads, planning their rise to power."
• Bill Gates, College Dropout: Don’t Be Like Me - The New York Times.
• Bedder - short for "bedmaker" and is a housekeeper in a college of the University of Cambridge and the University of Durham. The equivalent at the University of Oxford is known as a "scout". The equivalent at Trinity College, Dublin was known as a "skip", until the practice was abandoned in the early 1970s. There is no equivalent at the majority of other universities.
• Being Bilingual Changes the Architecture of Your Brain - Wired.
• Benson & Clegg - "Military / Regimental / Club Ties: We are unique in holding over 250 different striped silk ties representing a fascinating collection of British history and culture over the past century and beyond, as well as our exclusive range of fancy and motif ties."
• Best College Dorm Essentials - The Sweethome.
• best note-taking apps for students - "Our favorite tools for writing assignments and classroom notes."
• best UK universities 2023 - rankings - "Find a course at the university of your choice. Our league tables rank institutions by subject, looking at student satisfaction, staff numbers, spending and career prospects. How to use the tables. View the full guide."
• BEST U.S. BUSINESS SCHOOLS - Forbes.
• Bullingdon Club: Five Facts About The Super-Rich, Elite Oxford University Drinking Club - The Huffington Post.
• Business School Rankings 2015 - Financial Times.
• Cambridge Apostles - since 1820. (Also known as Conversazione Society). An intellectual society at the University of Cambridge founded in 1820 by George Tomlinson. The society traditionally drew most of its members from Christ's, St John's, Jesus, Trinity and King's Colleges. The Apostles became well known outside Cambridge in the years before the First World War with the rise to eminence of the group of intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group. John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey and his brother James, G. E. Moore, E. M. Forster and Rupert Brooke were all Apostles. Keynes, Woolf and Lytton Strachey subsequently gained prominence as members of Bloomsbury. The Apostles came to public attention again following the exposure of the Cambridge spy ring in 1951. Three Cambridge graduates with access to the top levels of government in Britain, one of them a former Apostle, were eventually found to have passed information to the KGB. The three known agents were Apostle Guy Burgess, an MI6 officer and secretary to the deputy foreign minister; Donald MacLean, foreign office secretary; and Kim Philby, MI6 officer and journalist.
• Cambridge in the dark over daylight theft of historic street lamps - "Theft of historic street lamps is 'heritage crime'. Three renowned Richardson Candles have been spirited away by thieves armed with a cherry picker, strength and electrical know-how - and nobody seems to have noticed."
• Can you solve it? Would you get into Oxford? - "Try your luck at its fiendish maths entrance exam."
• Charted: The World's Top 100 Universities 2024, by Country - "We breakdown which countries host the most top 100 universities in the world, as per the World University Rankings 2024, sourced from Times Higher Education. The ranking measures 1,906 universities across 108 countries on 18 performance indicators across broad pillars like teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook."
• Cherwell - "Independent since 1920." Oxford's independent student newspaper. Published weekly entirely by students of Oxford University. Named after a local river.
• Could You Get Into Oxford? University Releases Tough Interview Questions - The Huffington Post.
• DISTANCE EDUCATION - Wikipedia.
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• Doctoral ring - in Swedish and Danish academia, a doctoral ring may be bestowed upon the conferral of a doctorate.
• Elihu Yale: The cruel & greedy Yale benefactor who traded in Indian slaves - "Last month, Yale University issued a formal apology for the links its early leaders and benefactors had with slavery."
• Encaenia - "Encaenia is the ceremony at which the University of Oxford awards honorary degrees to distinguished men and women and commemorates its benefactors. It is held annually on the Wednesday of ninth week during Trinity Term."
• European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System (ECTS) - credits are a standard means for comparing the "volume of learning based on the defined learning outcomes and their associated workload" for higher education across the European Union and other collaborating European countries.
• Ferdinand Marcos Jr urged to stop pretending he has an Oxford degree - "University has said Philippines leader was awarded ‘special diploma in social studies’ in 1978, not a BA."
• Fraternities & sororities - are social organizations at colleges and universities. A form of the social fraternity, they are prominent in the United States and the Philippines, with much smaller numbers existing in France, Canada, and elsewhere. Similar organizations exist in other countries as well, including the Studentenverbindungen of German-speaking countries.
• FREE UNIVERSITY LECTURES - Lecturefox: computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and more.
• Gaokao - the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), commonly known as the gaokao, is a standardized college entrance exam held annually in mainland China. It is required for entrance into almost all higher education institutions at the undergraduate level. It is usually taken by students in their last year of senior high school, but the age requirement was abolished in 2001.
• Gap Year - in the professional or career world, a gap year is a year before going to college or University and after finishing high school or taking a year off before going into graduate school after completing a bachelor as an undergraduate. It is also known as a sabbatical year.
• Global MBA Ranking 2015 - Financial Times.
• GUIDE TO ONLINE SCHOOLS - accredited online colleges, online degrees and distance learning programs.
• Harvard to Discontinue Use of ‘House Master’ Title - The New York Times.
• Harvard University will divest its $42bn endowment from all fossil fuels - "Harvard Management Company, which oversees the university’s vast endowment of almost $42bn, has already been reducing its financial exposure to fossil fuels and has no direct investments in companies that explore for or develop further reserves of fossil fuels, Bacow said in a message posted on the university’s website."
• How a 'beginners’ mindset' can help you learn anything - "Although our ability to easily pick up a new skill declines with age, harnessing a specific type of mindset can help you learn effectively as an adult."
• How to Live Wisely - The New York Times.
• How to Measure a College’s Value - The New York Times.
• how universities around the world are tackling Covid - "From asking students to report illicit gatherings to expanded online teaching, educational institutions continue to adapt."
• I raised £7,000 on the internet to pay my tuition fees - The Telegraph.
• IARU | INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES
• Imperial University - Wikipedia.
• Is Harvard worth $50,000 if it's only online? That depends on who you ask - Forbes.
• IVY LEAGUE - an association of eight universities and colleges in the northeast United States.
• J.PRESS - buttons: Brown, Columbia and Cornell universities, and Dartmouth College.
• Johns Hopkins was a slave owner, university reveals - "University, which has been at forefront of Covid-19 response, took pride in founder purportedly being an abolitionist."
• Latin honors - are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree was earned. This system is primarily used in the United States.
• LEIDEN RANKING 2010 - aims at comparison of research institutions with impact measures that take the differences in disciplines into account.
• Liberal arts college - Wikipedia.
• List of oldest universities in continuous operation - Wikipedia.
• Literae Humaniores - name given to an undergraduate course focused on Classics (Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Latin, ancient Greek and philosophy) at the University of Oxford and some other universities. In its early days, it encompassed mathematics and natural sciences as well. It is now an archetypal Humanities course and is colloquially called Greats.
• Lori Loughlin: US actress to plead guilty in college cheating scam - "US actress Lori Loughlin, of the sitcom Full House, and her husband, designer Mossimo Giuannulli, will plead guilty to college admissions scam charges."
• magna cum laude - "With great praise"; an honor added to a diploma or degree for work considered to be of much higher quality than average.
• Meritocracy is a myth invented by the rich - "The elite college admissions scandal in the US is a reminder that wealth, not talent, is what determines the opportunities you have in life."
• MIND - since 1876. Quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Mind Association. Having previously published exclusively philosophy in the analytic tradition, it now "aims to take quality to be the sole criterion of publication, with no area of philosophy, no style of philosophy, and no school of philosophy excluded." Its institutional home is shared between the University of Oxford and University College London.
• Nalanda: The university that changed the world - "More than 500 years before Oxford University was founded, India's Nalanda University was home to nine million books and attracted 10,000 students from around the world."
• ‘No hope for science in Russia’: the academics trying to flee to the west - "Russian scientists are turning to partners abroad to help them escape, but face an uncertain future even if successful."
• Open Syllabus Explorer - "Mapping the college curriculum across 1M+ syllabi."
• OU | THE OPEN UNIVERSITY - Wikipedia.
• OXBRIDGE - definition & explanation.
• Oxford college backs removal of Cecil Rhodes statue - "Oriel College launches independent commission to examine key issues around imperialist’s statue."
• Oxford university admissions questions - "Brainteasers for budding philosophers."
• Oxford University releases sample interview questions - The Guardian.
• Oxford University separates 'helicopter' parents from children at open days - The Telegraph.
• Oxford University set to break with 700 years of tradition & open a foreign campus - The Telegraph.
• Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) - interdisciplinary undergraduate/post-graduate degree which combines study from three disciplines. The first institution to offer degrees in PPE was the University of Oxford in the 1920s.
• Porcellian Club - all-male final club at Harvard University, sometimes called the Porc or the P.C. The year of founding is usually given as 1791, when a group began meeting under the name "the Argonauts," or as 1794, the year of the roast pig dinner at which the club, known first as "the Pig Club" was formally founded. The club's motto, Dum vivimus vivamus (while we live, let us live) is literally Epicurean. The club emblem is the pig and some members sport golden pigs on watch-chains or neckties bearing pig's-head emblems. Cambridge, MA.
• QS - the world's leading network for top careers and education.
• QS TOP UNIVERSITIES - links high achievers from the graduate, MBA and executive communities around the world.
• QS World University Rankings 2014/2015 - "Compare the world's top universities, sort by region and subject, find the best universities in your academic field, and create your own personalized ranking based on what matters most to you."
• Scout - a student's male servant at Oxford University.
• Seven Sisters (colleges) - loose association of seven liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges. Five of the seven institutions continue to offer all-female undergraduate programs: Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Wellesley College.
• Singularity University - founded in 2008. (Abbreviated SU) is a Silicon Valley think tank that offers educational programs and a business incubator. According to its website, it focuses on scientific progress and "exponential" technologies.
• Sizar - At Trinity College Dublin and the University of Cambridge, a sizar is an undergraduate who receives some form of assistance such as meals, lower fees or lodging during his or her period of study, in some cases in return for doing a defined job.
• Skull and Bones - founded in 1832. Undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, CT.
• sophomore - student in the second year of study at high school or university.
• Stanford Gets $1.1 Billion for New Climate School From John Doerr - "The billionaire venture capitalist said the study of climate change and sustainability would be the 'new computer science.'"
• Stanford University reviewing safety after man caught living illegally in dorms - "The man was 'reported to be on campus several times since December of last year' but was most recently caught on October 27, according to Dee Mostofi, the external communications assistant vice president for the Northern California university."
• STEM DEGREES - science, technology, engineering or mathematics - "STEM degrees are increasingly valuable due to their high earning potential and job stability in various fields. The skills learned in these disciplines offer versatility, preparing graduates for a wide range of careers and contributing to robust job growth in traditional and non-traditional STEM fields."
• Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - The New York Times.
• The Building Blocks of Learning - The New York Times.
• THE GREAT COURSES - Audio & Video Lectures from The World's Best Professors - Amazon.com. As of 2013 the company offers more than 450 courses, which span more than 10,000 hours of content across several subject categories: business and economics, fine arts, music, ancient and medieval history, modern history, literature and English language, philosophy and intellectual history, religion, science, mathematics, social sciences, and better living.
• The Most Common Graduation Advice Tends to Backfire - "'Follow your passions?' Not so fast." The New York Times.
• The Open Syllabus Project - Open Syllabus Project and Syllabus Explorer: leverages a collection of over 1 million syllabi collected from university and departmental websites.
• The Phi Beta Kappa Society - founded in 1776. The oldest honor society for the liberal arts and sciences in the United States, with 284 active chapters. Widely considered to be the nation's most prestigious honor society, Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal arts and sciences and to induct the most outstanding students of arts and sciences at American colleges and universities.
• THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION World University Rankings 2014-2015 - top 400 world universities (powered by Thompson Reuters).
• The World's Most Prestigious Universities - The Huffington Post.
• There’s Still One Big Trick for Getting Into an Elite College - "Every American high schooler knows the supposed secret to a lifetime of success: admission to an elite university. Competition for coveted spots is so fierce that while an admission victory can’t be guaranteed, it can be gamed, if you know how to play."
• Times Higher Education–QS World University Rankings - Wikipedia.
• Top 10 In-Demand Skills For 2030 - "What will the world be like in 2030? Well, obviously, no one knows for sure, but we have some interesting predictions: According to Dell, 85% of us who are in work will be doing jobs that don’t exist yet. In a WEF video, Danish politician Ida Auken predicted we would 'own nothing and be happy' as everything is provided as-a-service. Here’s my pick for what the first graduates of the next decade will want to have on their CVs if they want to impress - and what the rest of us should focus on to stay competitive too."
• Top 10 Most Expensive Universities In The World 2012 - TheRichest.org
• Top 100 new universities 2016 – the list in full - The Telegraph.
• top 100 sites by and for Master's and PhD Candidates - online Ph.D. program.
• Top 100 world universities 2016/17 – THE rankings - The Telegraph.
• TOP 500 WORLD UNIVERSITIES - Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.
• TOP UNIVERSITIES BY REPUTATION - The Times Higher Education magazine.
• Town and Gown - are two distinct communities of a university town; "town" being the non-academic population and "gown" metonymically being the university community, especially in ancient seats of learning such as Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh and St Andrews.
• Trinity term - is the third and final term of the academic year at the University of Oxford, the University of Dublin, Canterbury Christ Church University, and some independent schools in the United Kingdom. It runs from about mid-April to about the end of June and is named after Trinity Sunday, which falls eight weeks after Easter, in May or June. At the University of Oxford, following the resolution made by Council on 8 May 2002, Trinity Term begins on and includes 20 April or the Wednesday after Easter, whichever is the later, and ends on and includes 6 July. In Trinity Term, as in Michaelmas Term and in Hilary Term, there is a period of eight weeks known as Full Term, beginning on a Sunday, within which lectures and other instruction prescribed by statute or regulation are given.
• Tripos - at the University of Cambridge, a Tripos is any of the undergraduate examinations that qualify an undergraduate for a bachelor's degree or the courses taken by an undergraduate to prepare.
• UK universities suffer worst-ever rankings in world league table - "Nearly three-quarters of UK universities slipped down while Asian institutions rose."
• UK University Guide 2023 - Forget Oxbridge: St Andrews knocks top universities off perc - "Latest Guardian University Guide shows leading trio are in league of their own for undergraduate courses."
• UNIVERSITIES WORLDWIDE - links to 9298 universities in 205 countries (September 8th, 2014).
• UNIVERSITY - Wikipedia.
• UNIVERSITY-LIST.NET - provides a lot of useful information about studying abroad such as rankings, website addresses, and other information of universities, colleges, language schools and high schools in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.
• University of the People - "Tuition-Free Online University." Non-profit, tuition-free, presently unaccredited online academic institution headquartered in Pasadena, California and founded by entrepreneur Shai Reshef in January 2009. All lecture and study sessions are delivered entirely from a secure website on the Internet. The non-profit organization provides access to online, post-secondary education to qualified students in a tuition-free model in order for students to overcome geographic or financial limitations and acquire higher learning.
• University Pitt Club - since 1835. Popularly referred to as the Pitt Club, the UPC, or merely as Club, is a private members' club of the University of Cambridge, with a previously male-only membership but now open to both men and women. "The Club’s founders intended the clubhouse to be a meeting place for members and their guests - a place where they could eat and drink in pleasant surroundings. In the twenty-first century the University Pitt Club continues to fulfil this role."
• UNIVERSITY RANKINGS - top universities worldwide.
• VIF | Very Important Fresher - "Luxury Transport for Students." We are stepping up the game, we are changing the way students travel to University and from September we will be offering the UKs first luxury student transport service. Transport options for Freshers to choose from include: a private jet or helicopter, Rolls Royce Phantom, a Mclaren P1, a Ferrari F430 and many others. All with the aim of providing an action-packed James Bond style expedition across the country, to arrive in style and make an entrance enviable of movie stars and premiership football players.
• What a Million Syllabuses Can Teach Us - The New York Times.
• What Colleges Want in an Applicant (Everything) - The New York Times.
• What degree should you study to become a billionaire? - The Telegraph.
• Where The Forbes 400 Went To College: The Top 10 Schools - "Colleges and universities are routinely ranked on a number of factors: student satisfaction, the quantity of research produced, the faculty and alumni giving rates. To this, Forbes adds the rarefied club of graduates who are members of The Forbes 400. It does not include college dropouts like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg, who both attended Harvard but never finished. The 79% of Forbes 400 members who are college graduates went to a total of 155 schools."
• Which College Degrees Have the Best Return on Investment? - "STEM degrees have the best bang for the buck, especially engineering and computer and information science degrees. Engineering, computer and information sciences, mathematics, and engineering technician degrees are the most valuable degrees in the U.S. when looking at expected lifetime income minus debt compared to working right after high school without a degree."
• Why gaining a degree could help you live longer - The Telegraph.
• WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2004-2009 - statistics, and more.
• World University Rankings 2015-2016 - Times Higher Education | THE.
• World University Rankings 2020 Put Oxford No. 1 But China Is The Real Winner As U.S. Declines - "Oxford has been named the world’s best university for the fifth year in a row - but China is the real winner in today’s global rankings."
• world's 15 oldest universities - The Telegraph.
• world's top universities by subject - The Telegraph.