Americans are putting more toward their mortgage payments, new data shows. The average mortgage payment was $2,005 in the third quarter of 2025, the latest period for which data is available, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Faculty members overwhelmingly approved a limit on the number of top grades they can give to about a fifth of their undergraduate classes. By Mark Arsenault Faculty members at Harvard University voted ...

According to the Social Security Administration (SSA), the Social Security program will pay out around $1.6 trillion in benefits to roughly 72 million beneficiaries this year. The bulk of these ...

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 ...

Alexandria Westray is a senior at Harvard. A government major from Pittsburgh, she says limiting As would hurt students’ futures. “It's a farce to say that there's nothing distinguishing Harvard ...

The SGPA Calculator Web App is a simple and user-friendly tool that allows students to calculate their Semester Grade Point Average (SGPA) based on their subject grades and credits. It helps students ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Greene covers classroom impact of education policy and practice This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...