College Facts

Research shows that women with higher levels of education are significantly more likely to report enjoying both giving and receiving oral sex compared to those with less education.

A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about 65% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma, a gap that has remained remarkably consistent for decades.

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.

In 1987, an 18-year-old freshman named Mike Hayes funded his education by asking 2.8 million people for one penny.

Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.

In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.

At his 2019 Morehouse College commencement address, billionaire Robert F. Smith announced his family would pay off the student loan debt of the entire graduating class. The gift covered all 396 seniors and ultimately totalled $34 million - including Parent PLUS loans. He told them: 'I know my class will pay this forward.'

Brian Boles was 17 when police handcuffed him to a chair for two days and fed him a false confession to a crime he didn't commit. He spent 30 years locked up - and used that time to enroll in the Bard Prison Initiative. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology two months before a judge officially cleared his name.