Roughly 15-20 percent of the U.S. workforce works some form of shift outside standard daytime hours. Nurses, warehouse workers, manufacturing workers, security guards, transportation workers, hotel staff, emergency dispatchers, data center operators, and dozens of other occupations run on overnight schedules — and all of them face the same...
Read MoreReady for courses like Analytical Mechanics, Medical Radiation Engineering, Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, and General Physics: Electromagnetism, Optics, and Modern Physics? Majoring in physics is an extraordinarily rigorous enterprise as it requires students to be strong in math, chemistry, and, of course, physics itself. While some students elect to...
Read MoreWhat the numbers reveal—and what they mean for students, families, and the future of higher education Somewhere in the last ten years, a generation of college students quietly turned away from the humanities. Not all at once, and not with any great fanfare. There was no single policy change,...
Read MoreVeterans approaching or completing their transition out of the military face an education decision that differs significantly from both active-duty service members and military spouses. The primary benefit available to most veterans, the Post-9/11 GI Bill, covers tuition up to $28,937 per year at private institutions and the full...
Read MorePer-credit tuition under $300 is a meaningful affordability threshold for an online bachelor’s degree. At that price, a full 120-credit degree tops out at approximately $36,000 before financial aid, which is roughly half the published cost at many private nonprofit online universities and competitive with in-state public flagship tuition....
Read MoreFor almost two years, COVID-19 dramatically altered the everyday lives of American teens as well as young people all over the globe. One particularly salient change was the rise of virtual learning, both in traditional academic settings as well as summer programs. Although most in-person programs have now resumed...
Read MoreMajoring in classics does not provide a direct career path like pre-professional fields of study. Rather, it produces graduates who thrive in the areas of critical thinking, research, writing, and communication, skills that prepare them to excel in just about any area. A glance at where Georgetown’s Classics majors...
Read MoreStudent debt is one of the most cited reasons working adults talk themselves out of going back to school. It is a reasonable concern on its face. Higher education costs have risen steadily for decades, and the headlines about loan burdens are hard to ignore. But the debt picture...
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