A college is a two-year or four-year higher education institution. Degree offerings may include certificates, associate degrees and bachelor’s degrees. Colleges can be either public or private.

A college graduate earns $32,000 more in a year than a worker with only a high school diploma, according to a new report from Federal Reserve economists. The payoff on a college degree stands near ...

Ms. Case and Mr. Deaton are the authors of “Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.” By many measures, the U.S. economy is thriving: Unemployment stands close to the 50-year low set in ...

When it comes to higher education worldwide, the United States is an outlier in more ways than one.In Canada and Japan, public-university tuition is now about $5,000 a year. In Italy, Spain and ...