{"id":34154,"date":"2024-09-18T11:45:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T15:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=34154"},"modified":"2024-09-25T13:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T17:25:38","slug":"niche-names-furman-among-best-liberal-arts-colleges-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/niche-names-furman-among-best-liberal-arts-colleges-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Niche names Furman among Best Liberal Arts Colleges in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The education resource website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niche.com\/colleges\/furman-university\/#rankings\">Niche<\/a> has ranked Furman University the 41st best liberal arts college in America.<\/p>\n<p>Furman also ranked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>21st Best College with No Application Fee in America<\/li>\n<li>31st Best College Campus in America<\/li>\n<li>46<sup>th<\/sup> Best Small College in America<\/li>\n<li>1st Private University in South Carolina<\/li>\n<li>1st Best Small College in South Carolina<\/li>\n<li>1st Best College Campus in South Carolina<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Niche uses a combination of publicly available data and survey results to compile its ranking and grades. Furman received an A for academics and an A-minus for professors, dorms, student life, the campus and campus food.<\/p>\n<p>This year, 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\u2019s acceptance rate, 42.96%, is lower than the 67% reported by Niche.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year Furman was included in Princeton Review\u2019s \u201cThe Best 390 Colleges\u201d and was noted for its green campus. Furman ranked 46<sup>th<\/sup> among national liberal arts colleges in the 2023 U.S. News &amp; World Report Best Colleges edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niche, the online resource for college preparation, ranked Furman among the best overall colleges, the best small colleges and among colleges that do not require an application fee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":8853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1580,3010,233],"class_list":["post-34154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","tag-college-rankings","tag-niche","tag-rankings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34154","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=34154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34248,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34154\/revisions\/34248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}