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Unlike many professions, those who enter business will often enter the work world after earning an under graduate degree, only to return to school later for graduate school.

This creates a situation where graduate school students have great experience , having spent years in the workforce, learning how ideas learned in school are applied in the real world. However, going back to school can often be a difficult transition, according to an article from U.S. News & World Report.

The University of California, Los Angeles, has the most driven students in the country, based on a report from the company Views On You.

The company, based in London, gathers information from students to help match them with the companies that best match their skill sets.

The company bases a person’s personality on three factors – energy, which gauges how you work; interpersonal, which gauges how you interact with others; and intelligence, which gauges how you think.

A new report shows that more private college president than ever are making $1 million-plus salaries at a time when the expense of higher education is keeping many people out of school.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that 42 private college presidents had earnings that topped $1 million in 2011, the latest available figures available. That was a 36% increase from the 2010 level.

With all the attention and focus on college education by both the government and private sector, college graduate rates have actually stalled, a new study has found.

About 56% of students who entered college as freshman in 2007 had earned a degree six years later, according to a report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. That rate is the same as it was in 2006.

A new study on the success rates of college students takes into account the attractiveness of the student. Those who were found to have above average looks ended up having a better chance of earning a four-year degree than those who were found to be less attractive.

The study s being published online this week in a book called “Physical Attractiveness and the Accumulation of Social and Human Capital in Adolescence and Young Adulthood,” co-authored by Rachel Gordon, a professor of sociology at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

The idea that attending business school is only worthwhile if you can get into the top 5 business schools is antiquated thinking, according to data gathered by a website that focuses on business schools and business school graduates.

Poets & Quants recently released data showing that many schools – including far lesser known schools than Harvard and Stanford – offer students an excellent chance to get a job upon graduation.

Although the issue of student debt has become part of the national debate on higher education, statistics show that high loan debt is not an issue affecting every area of the country.

A study this month from the Institute for College Access and Success reported that there is a disparity in loan levels depending on location in the country and the institution.

Generally speaking, those in the East and Midwest borrow far more money than those in the South and West.

General Motors (GM) – as well as most major car companies – are offering a discount on car purchases for college students, allowing them to purchase vehicles for thousands of dollars less.

The offer is extended to college students, recent college graduates and current nursing school and graduate students, according to the GM website.

Business schools are discovering that cutting programs may actually lead to a better learning experience for students and make more economic sense for the university.

After years of adding programs to attract more students in a competitive market, business schools have discovered that the result has been students confused by the number of programs offered and administrators burdened with trying to manage it all, according to The Wall Street Journal.

A new book takes a detailed look at the state of Massive Open Online Classrooms (MOOCs), finding they are neither a passing fad nor the savior of higher education.

However, the book finds, they could change how professors teach at the most basic level.

In “Beyond the MOOC Hype,” Jeffrey R. Young – a technology editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education – delves into the ongoing debate about how MOOCs will fit into the future of education.