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• How to Survive on a Graduate Student Stipend
• 'No-brainer' to move championship games from North Carolina -NCAA
• Colleges Take Steps to Prepare Students for Careers
• 10 Most, Least Expensive Private Colleges
• College Admissions Deans, Counselors Talk How to Get In
• Princeton, Williams Top 2017 U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings
• See the 2017 Best Liberal Arts Colleges

How to Survive on a Graduate Student Stipend Posted: 13 Sep 2016 11:16 AM PDT When Joe Brusca was living on a graduate student stipend, he cut expenses wherever he could. The master's degree student bought dried beans, lentils and rice in bulk, rehydrating them throughout the week for cheap and healthy meals. Graduate student stipends vary depending on the university, field of study, job duties and other factors.

'No-brainer' to move championship games from North Carolina -NCAA Posted: 13 Sep 2016 08:11 AM PDT By Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Sept 13 (Reuters) - The decision to move seven college championship sporting events out of North Carolina due to a state law deemed discriminatory to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people was a "proverbial no-brainer," the president of the governing body for U.S. college athletics said on Tuesday. The National Collegiate Athletic Association's move to relocate the games, including two rounds of the prominent Division I men's basketball tournament set for Greensboro in March, came after the National Basketball Association last month yanked its 2017 All-Star Game from the state in protest of the law. "Fairness and inclusion are right at the heart of what the NCAA does and what universities do," NCAA President Mark Emmert said on "CBS This Morning." "And so for our university presidents, this was the proverbial no-brainer." North Carolina in March became the only state in the country to require transgender people to use bathrooms in government buildings and public schools that correspond with the sex listed on their birth certificate.

Colleges Take Steps to Prepare Students for Careers Posted: 13 Sep 2016 06:30 AM PDT By the time senior Kristen Lundebjerg earns her degree in mechanical engineering from Boston's Wentworth Institute of Technology, she'll also have a full year of work in the field to show prospective employers. This fall, she is serving as a test director in the Energy Test Systems Area at NASA's Johnson Space Center. "Families and students are very focused on career readiness and career outcomes," says Paul Timmins, career services director at the University of Minnesota--Twin Cities' College of Liberal Arts and president-elect of the National Career Development Association, an organization of career counseling professionals.

10 Most, Least Expensive Private Colleges Posted: 13 Sep 2016 06:00 AM PDT The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College, The Short List: Grad School and The Short List: Online Programs to find data that matter to you in your college or grad school search.

College Admissions Deans, Counselors Talk How to Get In Posted: 13 Sep 2016 05:30 AM PDT As a college admissions officer for nearly 30 years, Diane Anci has grown used to fielding questions from high school students anxious to improve their chances of being accepted. Anci, vice president for enrollment management at Kenyon College in Ohio, says it makes her "so sad" to think applicants are "manipulating their whole life" to fit what they think she wants. Every admissions officer invited by U.S. News to offer tips on standing out from the crowd insists that the key is not to reverse-engineer your life to fit some imagined ideal but to instead do the best possible job of presenting your true self.

Princeton, Williams Top 2017 U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings Posted: 13 Sep 2016 05:00 AM PDT To find the college that's the best fit, prospective students and their families can turn to the 2017 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings, released today. Under the rankings methodology, eligible schools are divided into different categories such as National Universities and Regional Colleges, and evaluated on up to 15 indicators of academic excellence, such as freshman retention, faculty resources and graduation rates -- to name a few. Among National Universities, which emphasize research and offer bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs, Princeton University in New Jersey once again took No. 1, Massachusetts' Harvard University remained in second place and the University of Chicago moved up one spot to tie with Yale University in Connecticut for third place.

See the 2017 Best Liberal Arts Colleges Posted: 12 Sep 2016 07:00 PM PDT Top 20 Liberal Arts Colleges

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