Students are showing up to college with weaker skills. Colleges need them to succeed. Professors are stuck in the middle.

Analysis of two decades of student data at a large U.S. university suggests that grade inflation exists in graduate education ...

Grade inflation may lead to poor academic performance and lower earnings in the workforce among students in the U.S., according to a new study reported by The Hechinger Report. The study, presented at ...

Across the country, universities are using this and other alternative grading models that guarantee high marks based on some standard other than merit. Alternative grading schemes like these—often ...

Since pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses began waning, culture warriors have been casting about for a new controversy in elite higher education. Last October, Harvard handed them one. Amanda ...

Harvard reports — perhaps better to say it admits — that over 60 percent of its students received A’s. This has set off a new round of hand-wringing about grade inflation. The first round I remember ...

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The University will not alter its current grading policy despite persistent increases in the proportion of A-range grades, according to Dean of the College Michael Gordin. A December 2025 grading ...

Harvard University is proposing to limit the number of top grades awarded to undergraduate students, responding to concerns that grade inflation may weaken the meaning of a degree from the school. The ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences will vote next month on whether to cap the number ...

A new study from the University of Texas, however, says grade inflation is a problem. Lenient grades lead to worse outcomes ...