Rigorous courses will remain weighted, she said, but “you can’t be better than perfect.” She said administrators are still ...

As Darryn Peterson prepares for his Kansas career, interest is growing in his academic record and performance in the classroom. If All-American and The Queen’s Gambit had a basketball-loving cousin, ...

Vincent Phillip Muñoz is a professor at the University of Notre Dame. University administrators have long known that grade inflation is a problem, but no one has been willing to do much about it. The ...

The blockbuster game Minecraft depicts a world created by cubes: everything is made of discrete building blocks. It may therefore seem particularly unsuitable for calculating pi (π), the mathematical ...

Forbes 2026 College Financial Grades analyzes the operational soundness and balance sheet strength of private colleges. Here is how we calculate the grades.

At Harvard University, earning straight A’s is about to get harder. Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday that it would limit the number of A grades awarded to undergraduates, ...

Harvard University faculty members voted to impose a cap on A grades in undergraduate courses beginning in the fall of 2027. The new policy at one of America’s most prestigious colleges will limit A ...

Higher education is in trouble — and grades are losing their meaning. That’s the verdict a committee from Yale University reached last month in a report that said universities have strayed from their ...

America’s oldest and most prestigious university may soon be deliberately taking many of its students down a notch. This week, Harvard faculty members are voting on a contentious proposal to rein in ...

Harvard University faculty are set to begin voting Tuesday on the boldest attempt in decades to rein in grade inflation, an issue that’s drawn attention from the White House in its push to remake ...

Harvard faculty will vote May 12 through 19 on a proposal to limit A grades to 20 percent (plus 4) of the students in a class. Somehow, elite professors giving elite students high grades has become ...

Each year, the undergraduate college at Harvard awards the Sophia Freund Prize to the graduating senior with the highest GPA. For decades, the prize went to one student, sometimes two if there was a ...