The Education Blog

The US top three universities — Texas at Austin, California at Berkley, and Stanford University — have signed a five-year partnership with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Kaust) to be established in Saudi Arabia. The New York Times reports that under this new agreement, the three universities will help pick the faculty [...]

Stanford University will not charge students whose annual family income is less than $100,000 tuition fees. It is expected that the new financial aid program will reduce the average bill for student tuition by 16 percent. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “the university is making the change in the wake of published reports last [...]