Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Caltech professor Jared Leadbetter meets with university admissions ambassadors, from left, Emily Hu, Jj Jones and Miles Jones.

In a major shift for one of the nation's most prestigious universities, Caltech announced Thursday it is dropping its longstanding admissions requirement for applicants to have completed calculus, ...

The Chemistry Department offers a flexible curriculum for those who wish to acquire a knowledge of chemistry within the environment of a liberal arts college. Ten 1-semester courses are required for ...

At Duke, courses like calculus, general chemistry and physics are known for being intense, especially for pre-med and engineering students. Nicknamed weed-out classes, they’re infamous for their steep ...

The Department of Chemistry at Purdue University has earned national and world-wide honors. Purdue's own Dr. Herbert C. Brown, along with Georg Wittig from the University of Hedelberg in Germany, was ...