While health- and tech-related fields paid off the most, engineering degrees also made a solid showing in the top 25 degree programs. Only one program launches students into the professional world...
“Help us Congress, you’re our only hope,” David Heinemeier Hansson said, channeling his inner Princess Leia. Hansson, co-founder of Chicago-based project management software developer...
Underrepresented ethnic minorities make up about one-third of the U.S. population, but when it comes to undergraduates who earn engineering degrees, only 4 percent are African-Americans, 10 percent are Latinx, and less than 1 percent are indigenous. Even fewer underrepresented minorities – only about 6 percent – become engineering faculty members, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF).
At a dining hall at the University of Colorado Boulder, students can eat salad greens fresh from a garden just 20 feet away. The lettuce is grown in a high-tech greenhouse attached to the Village...