The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has released online a preview of its basic classifications, the system that has described and ordered colleges since the early 1970s.

My 16-year-old son has a piece of paper, thumbtacked to his bedroom wall: a list of about 30 colleges and universities, carefully ordered alongside checkmarks and crosshatches. Upon first glance, the ...

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Council on Education debut a new classification system focused on student success. As widespread public skepticism about the ...

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching capped a multiple-year effort to overhaul the labels affixed to America’s colleges and universities by releasing a new version of its basic ...

If most people know anything at all about the Carnegie Classifications—and many don’t—it starts and stops with one phrase: R-1. “Research 1,” the term the classification system attached to ...