Editor’s note: The Boston area is a kind of theme park of higher education, with dozens of universities and colleges for the traveler to visit. Register intern Megan Turchi, an Orange County ...

Boston's academic excellence extends to its neighboring towns, mostly in the Greater Boston area, including Cambridge, the cultural heart of Massachusetts, famous for Harvard University and the ...

Ivy League institution Harvard University is in Cambridge, just across the Charles River from downtown Boston. “The area provided the perfect mix of a college campus and a city playground with ...

With more than 50 institutions of higher learning in metropolitan area, Boston is truly one of the preeminent college towns. It’s also a world-class city full of history, scientific and tech ...

As one of the college capitals of the world, Boston will host lots of ... With families flooding into town, ... Here is a list of this year's graduation dates for colleges in the Boston area: ...

College kids make up roughly 25 percent of Boston's population, which is absolutely stunning if you really think about it. The city is one of the top 25 most populated in America, with over half a ...

Spotlight: 2014 A tragic fire and the dangers of student apartments in America’s college town With Boston-area colleges housing less than half of full-time undergraduates, too many packed into ...

While Massachusetts may have earned its stripes as an education hub, only a few towns that host colleges and universities were ranked among the safest college towns nationwide. Home security firm ...

There were approximately 19.7 million college students in the U.S. in 2020, according to National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) data. That figure reflects a gradual increase in tertiary ...