{"id":19644,"date":"2022-09-12T08:31:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T12:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=19644"},"modified":"2022-09-30T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T18:27:16","slug":"furman-rises-in-us-news-rankings-noted-for-innovation-teaching-research-first-year-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-rises-in-us-news-rankings-noted-for-innovation-teaching-research-first-year-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman rises in US News rankings; noted for innovation, teaching, research, first-year experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Furman University continues to climb in the U.S. News & World Report \u201cBest Colleges\u201d rankings, which were released today. Overall, the university ranked 45th<\/sup> among 200 national liberal arts colleges and universities in the country, up from 46th<\/sup> last year.<\/p>\n

Furman was most notably recognized as a \u201cMost Innovative School,\u201d placing fourth, the university\u2019s highest rank in any category. Furman has been included on the most innovative list every year since The Furman Advantage<\/a> launched in 2016. Furman was also highly ranked among National Liberal Arts Colleges for \u201cBest Undergraduate Teaching\u201d (No. 29).<\/p>\n

In categories that combine \u201cNational Universities\u201d and \u201cNational Liberal Arts Colleges,\u201d Furman ranked 31st<\/sup> in \u201cUndergraduate Research,\u201d above schools such as Rice, UCLA, Clemson and Columbia, and 32nd<\/sup> for \u201cFirst-Year Experience,\u201d tied with Harvard, Vanderbilt, Grinnell and Barnard.<\/p>\n

The \u201cMost Innovative,\u201d \u201cBest Undergraduate Teaching,\u201d \u201cUndergraduate Research\u201d and \u201cFirst-Year Experience\u201d rankings are decided by university presidents, provosts and deans of admissions who are asked to list the top schools that come to mind in the respective categories.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know rankings like these reflect only a small part of Furman\u2019s value and our educational experience, but it\u2019s nice to have our peers recognize the hard work, dedication and innovation of our students, faculty and staff, who truly earn the recognition,\u201d said Furman University President Elizabeth Davis.<\/p>\n

Innovation has become a hallmark for Furman. \u201cWe continually innovate in the classroom, with engaged learning experiences, in student life and in other areas,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n

One of the most notable and intrinsic innovations is Pathways<\/a>, an enhancement of The Furman Advantage. Pathways is a series of four one-credit classes led by faculty advisors and peer mentors that builds a foundation of self-awareness and professional skills. In April, Furman\u2019s faculty voted to make Pathways a requirement for all first-year and sophomore students. The Furman Advantage and Pathways are a first in higher education, and many other universities have consulted with Furman on implementing similar programs on their campuses.<\/p>\n

Furman regularly appears in other publications\u2019 rankings. In August, The Princeton Review<\/a> again included Furman in its \u201cBest Colleges\u201d guide and ranked the university in the top 25 in \u201cMost Accessible Professors,\u201d \u201cBest Classroom Experience\u201d and several other categories. Visit this page<\/a> for more Furman rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The university has ranked among the most innovative universities since 2016, and ranked No. 4 this year, signaling the level of awareness of The Furman Advantage and other programs have in higher education. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":16257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,99,71,45,56,19,20,63,53,64,51,33,40,62,88,101,37,46,28,31,38,21,42,81,58,52,50,54,44,16,39,79,36,49,32,59,75,48,94,23,68,22,27,47,41,66,55,80,93],"tags":[152,233,1035,1574,1575],"class_list":["post-19644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-africana-studies","category-anthropology","category-art","category-asian-studies","category-biology","category-business-and-accounting","category-career-services","category-chemistry","category-classics","category-communication-studies","category-computer-science","category-continuing-education","category-corporate-and-professional-development","category-cothran-center-for-vocational-reflection","category-data-analytics","category-earth-environmental-and-sustainability-sciences","category-economics","category-education","category-english","category-greek-life","category-health-sciences","category-history","category-innovation-and-entrepreneurship","category-internships","category-library","category-mathematics","category-may-experience","category-military-science-rotc","category-modern-languages-and-literature","category-music","category-neuroscience","category-philosophy","category-physics","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-pre-health","category-pre-law","category-psychology","category-public-health","category-religion","category-shucker-leadership-institute","category-sociology","category-student-life","category-study-away-and-international-education","category-theatre-arts","category-undergraduate-evening-studies","category-undergraduate-research","category-urban-studies","category-womens-gender-and-sexuality-studies","tag-innovation","tag-rankings","tag-u-s-news-world-report","tag-us-news-and-world-report","tag-usnwr"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}