{"id":33928,"date":"2024-08-29T10:13:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T14:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=33928"},"modified":"2024-08-29T14:04:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T18:04:21","slug":"furman-included-on-the-forbes-list-of-top-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-included-on-the-forbes-list-of-top-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman included on the Forbes List of Top Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes has again included Furman in its list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/top-colleges\/\">\u201cAmerica\u2019s Top Colleges.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The publication ranked 500 universities who \u201coffer the best educational, financial and career outcomes for all students.\u201d Many of Forbes\u2019s sublists are available to subscribers only. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/colleges\/furman-university\/?list=top-colleges\">Furman\u2019s overall profile<\/a> shows the university ranks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>35 among liberal arts universities,<\/li>\n<li>36 among all universities in the South,<\/li>\n<li>84 among all private colleges, and<\/li>\n<li>149 among all universities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Forbes lists details about Furman based on previous years that warrant updating or clarifying. For example, Furman offers more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/majors-minors-programs\/\">70 majors, minors and programs<\/a>. The retention rate is 91%, the four-year graduation rate is 82%, with a 98% placement rate in employment or graduate school six months after graduation. The diversity of the student body is around 30% and the acceptance rate this year was 42.96% after a record number of applications (10,813).<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/about\/\">here<\/a> to find out more about Furman\u2019s students, and visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/facts-and-figures-for-the-furman-class-of-2028\/\">this news story<\/a> for information on the Class of 2028, which started classes Aug. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman ranks 35th among all liberal arts universities in the country. The publication mentions author George Singleton, the founder of Lay&#8217;s Herman Lay and Kabbage founder Kathryn Petralia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":25497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1981,6],"tags":[2989,2988,2987,2986],"class_list":["post-33928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-forbes","category-in-the-news","tag-americas-top-colleges","tag-forbes","tag-forbes-ranking","tag-top-colleges-in-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33928","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=33928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33930,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33928\/revisions\/33930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}