College is an exciting stage of life filled with new opportunities, responsibilities, and challenges. For many, it’s the first time managing academics, finances, social life, and personal growth all ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how college impacts students. When my son was considering college, I would often tell him to think of his college ...

There’s a moment in every college orientation when you look around and think, “this is it, my new life.” The college experience is universally considered to be some of the best years of most people’s ...

It’s nowhere near revolutionary to say that moving to college is a major adjustment. We are thrown into an entirely new world. For the first time in most of our lives, it is completely up to us to ...

The college admission process can be daunting. Here are some ideas from a college president — and a parent who has been through it twice — on the ways parents can help with the final college selection ...

Wren: Hey Vivian! I think it’s safe to say we’ve had pretty different college experiences when it comes to finding the balance between work and play. In my freshman year, the most social I got was ...

Everything is soooo different now than when we went to college in the ‘90s and ‘00s. From the Common App (yay!) to terrifyingly tiny acceptance rates (boo!), so much about the application process has ...

That sums up the gist of what many people wanted to know from me, since I transferred from community college to the University. That emphasis on “real” was fascinating to me, as if the first two years ...

With the rising cost of college tuition, and many graduates saddled with hefty student loan balances, more parents and their children are wondering if higher education is still worth it. Further, ...