Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

When Katrina McChesney received an email from an Australian university she had “never heard of” about free research master’s and doctoral degrees for Antipodean citizens, she assumed it was a scam. At ...

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Amid ongoing federal budget cuts, many US universities have been forced to scale back or freeze PhD admissions. The impact of these reductions is already being felt by students, early-career ...

Educators and officials in China have been aggressively trying within the country for a decade to develop distance education as a way to deliver courses to students. But in recent months, several ...

The UGC has officially recognized 101 universities and 20 Category-1 institutions for Open and Distance Learning (ODL) and 113 for online courses for the 2025-26 academic year. Most universities no ...

In reading the latest news about Boston University and its decision to diminish and cut several PhD programs in the humanities, I have to wonder about the state of higher education (“BU’s deep cuts ...