Posted on: 15 Jul 2026
Mathematics is the language of science and the foundation of quantitative reasoning across nearly every academic discipline. It is also one of the most versatile undergraduate majors available, producing graduates who become research mathematicians, Wall Street quantitative analysts, software engineers, statisticians, data scientists, actuaries, economists, and educators. The career pathways from a mathematics degree are […]
Posted on: 14 Jul 2026
Public health is one of the fastest-growing undergraduate majors in the United States, driven by rising student awareness of population health, healthcare systems, health equity, and the role of scientific evidence in addressing disease at the community and societal level. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated that interest sharply, as millions of Americans observed firsthand the consequences […]
Posted on: 10 Jul 2026
Engineering is the discipline through which scientific knowledge is converted into the systems, materials, machines, and infrastructure that define modern life. It is not a single field but a family of fields, ranging from the ancient discipline of civil engineering, which builds the physical fabric of civilization, to the newer disciplines of biomedical, computer, and […]
Posted on: 10 Jul 2026
Civil engineering is the oldest of the engineering disciplines, and in many respects the one most deeply embedded in the physical fabric of society. It is the field responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure that modern civilization depends on: bridges, dams, highways, airports, water treatment systems, pipelines, levees, and the structural frameworks of […]
Posted on: 09 Jul 2026
Johns Hopkins runs one of the most active and self-conscious admissions offices in American higher education. Over the past five years it has reinstated standardized testing for its Homewood schools after a multi-year test-optional run, kept legacy preference off the table, extended its no-loan aid policy to international students, watched applications climb from roughly 39,500 […]
Posted on: 09 Jul 2026
Georgia Tech entered the 2020s as the rare highly selective university whose national reputation was climbing about as fast as its application volume. Over the five cycles from Fall 2021 through Fall 2025, the Institute’s first-year applicant pool grew 47 percent, from 45,388 to roughly 66,900, and the overall admit rate compressed from 18.3 percent […]
Posted on: 09 Jul 2026
Notre Dame is a private Catholic research university with an admissions story that, until recently, looked steadier than most of its peers. Application volume drifted upward without spiking. The admit rate moved by a percentage point or two each year. Yield held in a narrow band. Then, in September 2024, new president Rev. Robert A. […]
Posted on: 09 Jul 2026
Dartmouth has spent the last five years doing something none of its Ivy League peers has done: reversing the test-optional policy adopted during the pandemic. The Fall 2025 entering class was the first since 2019 required to submit an SAT or ACT, and application volume responded, falling from 31,656 in the Fall 2024 cycle to […]