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Imagine getting college credit for studying Metallica and Iron Maiden and playing metal gigs. Sounds like something metalheads might dream up after a long night of partying, but a college in the U.K. is doing just that. Beginning this fall, New College Nottingham will offer a two-year degree in heavy metal, reports the Nottingham Post...

If there's one thing college kids can vouch for, it's that student loans are a b-word. It seems more and more of our friends are graduating college only to find jobs they could have had if they just skipped higher education all together...

Finals week can get pretty hectic. Any college student will tell you that it involves all-nighters, energy drinks, junk food, Taco Bell, anxiety and not much sleep. Two LSU students even rose to campus stardom for dropping an annual viral video dedicated to Finals Week, and all it's stressful glory.

After getting their diplomas, a lot of college graduates decide to head to the big city to try and make it big, and Dallas and Houston made the list of the best. Which other cities are ranked as the best?

After weeks, sometimes months, of waiting for the news, it can lead to quite the emotional release.

On Wednesday morning, authorities found the body of a University of Central Florida student inside a dorm room, dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. A campus spokeswoman said that there were also improvised explosive devices and additional weapons in the room.

Ah, College -- it's not just the place to get an advanced education, but a carnal education as well. On campus we learn a lot about hooking up (and if we're lucky, some freaky experimentation) before settling down after graduation. Are students really hitting the sheets as much as they are hitting the books? According to a recent Sexual Satisfaction Survey conducted by Lifestyles Condoms, they sur

Despite the fact that some college tuitions have reached an excess of $50,000 per year, these days colleges can't guarantee that their graduates will have jobs waiting for them. In the wake of this uncertainty, some institutions have begun to guide their students in cleaning up their social media profiles, to lower the risk of a poorly-timed facebook post ruining their shot at employment.  Read Mo

Higher education is expensive, and getting more so by the day. Faced with the prospect of long term student loans, and tighter financial budgets, may prospective students are simply preparing themselves for life without the advantages of a degree. How to solve that problem? One answer may be on the horizon, thanks to legislators here in the Lone Star State.

College sports is steeped in tradition, from Notre Dame football players singing their alma mater with fans at the end of home games to the eerie 'Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk!' chant of Kansas basketball fans.

Earlier this week, the investment ratings firm Morningstar released their annual list of the year’s best 529 college-savings plans.

Coaches moving from the college ranks to the NFL tend not to work out. For every Jimmy Johnson success story, there are the disappointments of Barry Switzer (Johnson's successor in Dallas), Steve Spurrier, Lou Holtz and Nick Saban—all extremely successful NCAA coaches who, for whatever reason, couldn't find the same level of achievement in the pros. This weekend's end-of-game incident between vete