{"id":33916,"date":"2024-08-27T16:25:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=33916"},"modified":"2024-08-27T16:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:25:51","slug":"furman-included-in-princeton-reviews-best-390-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-included-in-princeton-reviews-best-390-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman included in Princeton Review&#8217;s &#8216;Best 390 Colleges&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University has once again been included in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princetonreview.com\/college\/furman-university-1022904?ceid=best-colleges\">Princeton Review\u2019s \u201cThe Best 390 Colleges\u201d<\/a> publication. Furman has made the list, which includes the top 15% of universities in the country, every year since it began 42 years ago.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33917\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33917\" class=\"wp-image-33917 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2024\/08\/best390cover.jpeg\" alt=\"image of a magazine that reads &quot;Best 390 Colleges&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"396\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2024\/08\/best390cover.jpeg 341w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2024\/08\/best390cover-114x150.jpeg 114w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/396;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-33917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Princeton Review&#8217;s &#8220;Best 390 Colleges&#8221; again includes Furman.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This year, Furman also made the \u201cBest South\u201d list, including public and private universities in the South, and the \u201cGreen Campus\u201d list of environmentally responsible schools. Rankings are based on student surveys conducted in the 2023-2024 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>Furman received a record number of applications this year: 10,813 high schoolers applied to be a Paladin; 4,645 were admitted and 616 enrolled. This year&#8217;s acceptance rate, 42.96%, is lower than the 53% for last year published in the Princeton Review.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty fared well in student responses to the survey. One student said the faculty \u201clove teaching and instilling a passion for growth, inquiry and engagement.&#8221; Another said, \u201cthe overwhelming majority of professors at Furman are experts in their field and truly care about helping students succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About their peers, one respondent called Furman students a &#8220;community of open-minded people&#8221; who are &#8220;willing to help one another.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman has been included in the list since it began 42 years ago. The ranking is based on a survey conducted last year; this year, Furman saw record applications and a lower acceptance rate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":30578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6,2050],"tags":[149,232,233],"class_list":["post-33916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-in-the-news","category-the-princeton-review","tag-best-colleges","tag-princeton-review","tag-rankings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33916","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=33916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33920,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33916\/revisions\/33920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}