Faculty at the oldest college in the country are debating whether to limit the number of top grades issued to undergraduates.

Like monetary inflation, runaway A’s in higher education are a collective-action problem. About two-thirds of grades at ...

Analysis of two decades of student data at a large U.S. university suggests that grade inflation exists in graduate education. Researcher Vivien Lee and colleagues at the University of Minnesota, U.S.

Harvard University is planning to postpone for one year its proposed cap on the number of A grades faculty can assign to ...

A new study reveals that grade inflation is occurring in graduate and doctoral programs, with master’s students experiencing greater GPA increases.

A new study from the University of Texas, however, says grade inflation is a problem. Lenient grades lead to worse outcomes for students, including lower lifetime earnings. The most common grade today ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harvard reports — perhaps better to say it admits — that over 60 percent of its students received A’s. This has set off a new ...

Last year, the average GPA for Harvard University’s Class of 2025 was 3.83. That’s not a typo. At Harvard, one of the world’s most selective colleges, the average student graduating in 2025 had a 3.83 ...

Harvard’s measure purports to “ give meaning ” back to an A. Students should have to work hard to earn a high grade and ...

Recently, there has been a lot of handwringing over grade inflation both at the higher education and K–12 levels, but how big of a problem actually is grade inflation? What sort of effect does grade ...

Straight‑A report cards have never been more common for America’s teens—but the payoff is not what parents think. A new National Bureau of Economic Research study finds that when teachers hand out ...