The recent decision by the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation to simplify the classification of research universities may have been well meaning, but it represents a serious ...

The American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching have released a new research classification of colleges and universities. The new framework relies on an ...

UC Merced has assumed its place in the top echelon of research institutions in the nation by earning R1 status from Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The announcement was ...

The University of Memphis is a top research institution in the country, a recognition announced Thursday after a years-long mission to up the research activity and awards at the university. U of M has ...

More than 40 new institutions have achieved Research-1 status under a new, simplified Carnegie classification methodology announced Thursday morning. Designed to discourage institutions from deviating ...