"Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own...

A satire on university life, describing the rackets and the intellectual dishonesty that goes on. The setting is the U of Moo where research into the destruction of rain forests is tailored to suit the corporation funding the project. By the author of A Thousand Acres.

A seventeen-year-old orphan is sent to a posh northeastern college for women by an anonymous benefactor. All she must do is write to the man she nicknames Daddy-Long-Legs and tell him of her progress.

"High school students who get average grades and don't ace the SAT or ACT discover that an exceptional college education is by no means beyond their reach with this guide. Along with information on what to look for in a college and what colleges look for in their students besides grades, this college reference provides details on more than 175 colleges that make it a point to help students who have not achieved a stellar GPA and includes information...

An exposé of the Varsity Blues scandal reveals how an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer preyed on the desperation of wealthy, upper class, insecure parents who sought to have their children admitted to elite colleges to maintain their own social status.

Ken Ward goes to college for two reasons: to get an education and to play baseball. But while suffering a freshman hazing, he punches a student who turns out to be the varsity baseball captain.

"Wealth. Power, Murder, Magic, Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. Alex is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory, even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. Alex and Dawes can't call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and artifacts to uncover the societies' secrets and break every rule doing it. But...

"Encourages outrage at what politicians have been allowed to do to universities, in terms of distorting and destroying their primary missions by converting them into cost-centres and annexes of the economy; Asks why academics have been so docile and compliant in allowing the wholesale dismantling of universities, and why there has been so little resistance; Systematically marshals the huge body of evidence bearing testimony to the relentless assault...