Schools have received major gifts even in lean economic times. The latest, for U-Md., is $31 million.
The record gift from Brendan Iribe, co-founder of Oculus VR, will fund scholarships, computer science.
The University of California at Berkeley, highly prestigious, barely makes the top 20.
Sarah Lawrence had been omitted for several years because of a policy on use of test scores in admissions
For most schools, the rankings vary little from year to year. But a few saw major changes in the 2014-2015 list.
Times project apparently to be unveiled as U.S. News & World Report prepares to issue its rankings.
The Ivy League university, under a federal investigation for nearly four years, is the latest to weigh changes.
Md. college will let applicants submit two-minute shorts, without sending test scores or high school transcripts.
The highly selective university says it will gradually grow its freshman classes, starting in 2016.
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg said he did not mean to imply drunken women should be blamed if raped.
A former Post education editor, Nick writes about college from the perspective of a father of three who will soon be buried in tuition bills. His interests include the technological revolution in education, the admissions and financial aid maze, the rapidly changing (and globalizing) university market and the sheer intellectual fun of academic life. He joined The Post in 2005 after covering Congress and education for the Los Angeles Times, and he is a graduate of Stanford University.
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