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 ...

Not only is underemployment persistent, it’s also costly. A recent graduate employed in a college-level job earns an average of $60,000 annually, about 88 percent more than someone who’s only ...

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 ...

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 ...