Articles about college

Grubhub adding Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ tech to college campus dining experiences

Amazon is headed back to college for the new school year. The company’s cashierless “Just Walk Out” technology is being… Read More

Amazon to put $450M into delivery program for driver retirement, tuition matches, better pay

Amazon will further test the limits of its relationships with the independent companies that deliver its packages throughout much of… Read More

Amazon to spend $1.2B to pay college tuition and expand skills training for operations workers

Amazon is increasing its investment in the education and training of its front-line operations workers, announcing Thursday that it will… Read More

UW jumps to No. 8 in global ranking of best universities; computer science among top subjects

The University of Washington has moved up two spots to No. 8 in the latest ranking of Best Global Universities… Read More

Gates Foundation gives $23M to groups helping to keep college dream alive in the era of COVID-19

With all of the pandemic-related concerns around how children, parents and educators will deal with in-person or remote learning this… Read More

Washington state issues new COVID rules for universities and colleges ahead of fall term

Washington state issued new guidelines for institutes of higher education Thursday as they prepare to re-open for the fall term.… Read More

Three Washington girls among 100 winners of first ‘Amazon Future Engineer’ $40,000 scholarships

Amazon revealed 100 lucky winners who will receive the first “Amazon Future Engineer” scholarships as part of the tech giant’s… Read More

Hey, roomie, I’m Alexa: Saint Louis University putting 2,300 Amazon Echo Dots in student housing

Students headed back to school at one university this fall will be getting to know a new kind of roommate… Read More

Stanford and Berkeley top new startup ranking, showing split between Seattle and Bay Area tech

Bay Area universities top Pitchbook’s new annual report on the schools producing the most venture capital-backed entrepreneurs. Seattle’s University of Washington,… Read More

Working Geek: ‘Cirkled in’ founder Reetu Gupta aims to streamline college admissions

Three years ago, Reetu Gupta found herself asking the agonizing question that plagues thousands of parents of high school students:… Read More

Why this prominent Seattle angel investor is heading to college at the age of 54

Gary Rubens is one of Seattle’s top angel investors, a fixture in the region’s startup ecosystem. But now the 54-year-old investor… Read More

Here are the top 10 universities graduating the most VC-backed entrepreneurs

Students across the country are headed back to school and many high school seniors are deciding which college or university… Read More

Amazon and Wells Fargo partner to offer discounted student loans

Amazon Student subscribers are now eligible for discounted interest rates when applying for private student loans through Wells Fargo. The… Read More

Swipe right to apply: LinkedIn courts college students with Tinder-like job hunting app

A fresh college grad’s first real job hunt is a lot like young love. Exhilarating, terrifying, and in today’s information-rich… Read More

Hey, can I buy your notes? Barnes & Noble invests in Flashnotes student marketplace

Barnes & Noble has made an investment in Flashnotes, an online marketplace where college students can buy and sell their notes… Read More

NCAA awards $20M to student-athletes over video games that used their names, images without compensation

The NCAA today reached a settlement in a video-game related lawsuit that will award current and former student-athletes $20 million. The… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Filling the gap between college and the working world

So you’ve graduated from college with a liberal arts degree. Now what? That’s the challenge being tackled by Koru, a… Read More

College bookstore learns to live with Amazon in first-ever pilot program

Traditional bookstores have long viewed Amazon as a competitor, and rightly so, but one university bookstore is figuring out what… Read More

These are the top universities graduating the most VC-backed entrepreneurs

Every week during the college football season, the Associated Press comes out with an updated list of the top 25… Read More

Oregon’s top research universities form accelerator to create more startups

In an effort to spur startup growth, Oregon legislators just passed a bill that will help the University of Oregon and… Read More

5 steps to prepare your geek child for college

As caps and gowns are returned for deposits while freshmen are readying to be deposited this fall in the college… Read More

From shopping advice to walking devices, startups with UW ties show off their successful ideas

The entrepreneurial talent coming out of the University of Washington was on full display Tuesday evening at the Paul G. Allen Center… Read More

UW partners with not-for-profit edX to offer free online courses

In another attempt to help expand university-level instruction access on a wide scale, the University of Washington announced a new partnership Tuesday with… Read More

Bill Gates: Like athletes, teachers need their Vince Lombardi or John Wooden

To improve upon something, we must learn, and to learn, we often seek guidance from others. For example, Michael Jordan… Read More

Northeastern Univ. CEO: ‘Gaming in Seattle is a submarine industry’

Tayloe Washburn gets excited when talking about Seattle as a gaming hub. He also knows how many people play video… Read More

College grads would rather work at Microsoft over Amazon, Facebook

Maybe it’s the wacky and awesome commercials they’ve been putting out. Or it could be company’s reputation as an impressive… Read More

This startup builds apps for a million customers that learn in bite-sized snacks

Technology is certainly changing and improving how people are educated today, and one Seattle startup is well on its way… Read More

PolyDrop turns paint into conductive coatings, wins $10K at UW environmental challenge

College students are saving the world. Well, maybe not all of them. But the teams that participated in last week’s… Read More

A non-creepy Craigslist: CampusWall rolls out a safer marketplace for college students

We’ve all encountered those questionable Craigslist ads: one person looking for an “R. Kelly Impersonator,” another selling a portable stripper… Read More

The future of education: What entrepreneurs need to know about entering the e-learning space

The education space is a promising field that has garnered tons of investor attention. The numbers don’t lie: education technology raised… Read More