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New Yorkers who participate in the state's 529 college savings direct plan will see their fees cut by almost 50%. The direct plan's total annual asset-based fee declined to 0.25% from 0.49% starting Aug. 29, according to the comptroller's office. The reduction means plan participants could save...

The most prestigious scholarship a student can win is, hands down, the Rhodes Scholarship. While the free education at Oxford University can't be beat, the esteem of being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship is unparalleled: Rhodes scholars are considered the cream of the crop and can get jobs in any...

You don't have to wait until after graduation to be your own boss or run a successful business -- there are plenty of college entrepreneurs to prove it. A good idea is a good idea at any age, and quite a few scientific studies have shown that youth correlates with creativity. As such, Money College...

A new company called Ultrinsic Motivator Inc. has an interesting proposition for students: place bets on your grades. The website, which currently allows students at 36 campuses to place wagers on their academic performance, could help keep students motivated during college -- and, with any luck, help them graduate with less or even no debt.

As journalists and business-minded folk scramble to solve the media crisis, three 21-year old women believe they have created a working model for online content--which makes sense, given that they come from the same school where Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook. After winning Harvard's i3...

A Forbes story makes it painfully clear that getting into Harvard University is a feat that only the most dedicated students can achieve. Tips for getting into Harvard include things like reading a top list of books for college admission, getting college counseling, taking expensive SAT Prep...

Facebook's ownership is becoming murkier by the minute. During a court hearing Tuesday, the social networking company's attorney said she was "unsure" whether founder Mark Zuckerberg signed a contract that could potentially give an 84% stake in the company to Paul Ceglia, a New York businessman.

As I write this, I'm standing in a classroom at Northwestern University, teaching journalism to 14 exceptionally bright students, ranging in age from 9 to 12. They startle me with how much they know; some of them wield iPads with more skill and flash than adults. Others correct me when I make a...

Faked transcripts from MIT, a plagiarized Rhodes Scholarship application, and deceived parents. This may sound like a poorly- executed Frank Abagnale Jr. plot, but it's the true to life story of 23-year-old Adam Wheeler. Wheeler's higher ed hijinks were uncovered after he left Harvard over a...

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein loves to recount how he rose up from the mean streets of Brooklyn and went to Harvard on scholarship and on to its law school. But he turned around and bit the hand that fed him, to the tune of at least $100 million, when Harvard found itself on the wrong side of a synthetic CDO bet with Goldman.