What an Ivy League Education Really Gets You
Economists have a new theory of why graduates of top colleges have so much career success.
Rose Horowitch
Rose Horowitch is a staff writer at The Atlantic.
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Brooks Kraft / Getty Where Are All the Campus Protests?
Two years ago, students occupied buildings and colonized the quad. Now the same places are strangely silent.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Ted Shaffrey / AP. Trump’s Assault on Higher Education Has Hit a Snag
Universities and their allies have been able to block many, if not most, of the White House’s moves in court.
Illustration by Lucy Naland. Sources: Kenny Holston / Bloomberg / Getty; Alamy. The Harvard of the South … Of the West?
Elite universities are taking the concept of a satellite campus to its logical extreme.
Illustration by The Atlantic The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films
The attention-span crisis goes to the movies.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: bilalulker / Getty; FilmPublicityArchive / United Archives / Getty; Julian Stratenschulte / Picture Alliance / Getty; Prasert Krainukul / Getty. The College Backlash Is a Mirage
Americans are more pessimistic than ever about the value of a degree—but enrollment keeps going up.
Illustration by The Atlantic The Entry-Level Hiring Process Is Breaking Down
Grade inflation and the rise of AI are making it impossible for employers to evaluate recent graduates.
Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic Accommodation Nation
America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
Illustration by Ben Hickey ‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’
What happens when even college students can’t do math anymore?
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic So Much for Class-Based Affirmative Action
The Trump administration considers even race-blind admissions policies illegal if they’re intended to achieve diversity.
Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic
