{"id":34280,"date":"2024-09-26T16:15:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T20:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=34280"},"modified":"2024-09-30T13:43:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T17:43:02","slug":"local-news-outlets-run-stories-about-u-s-news-and-world-reports-best-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/local-news-outlets-run-stories-about-u-s-news-and-world-reports-best-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Local news outlets run stories about U.S. News and World Report&#8217;s &#8216;Best Colleges&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-university-again-ranks-among-u-s-news-best-colleges\/\">U.S. News &amp; World Report&#8217;s<\/a> annual release of its &#8220;Best Colleges&#8221; report, several news outlets ran stories. Furman University, which moved up one spot to No. 45 among liberal arts and sciences universities and ranks No. 7 for &#8220;most innovative,&#8221; appears in the coverage. See more in <a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/education\/best-colleges-rankings-include-clemson-furman-usc-anderson-bob-jones-north-greenville\/\">Greenville Journal<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/2024\/09\/26\/u-s-news-world-report-best-colleges-2025-south-carolina-rankings\/75365972007\/\">The Greenville News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/whosonthemove.com\/furman-university-again-ranks-among-u-s-news-best-colleges\/?mc_cid=254dccbdcb&amp;mc_eid=6509a00c15\">UpstateBizSC<\/a>\u00a0and on WHNS <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2730&amp;DateTime=9%2F24%2F2024+12%3A52%3A25+PM&amp;u=814822&amp;e=true&amp;t=False&amp;aln=56992169\">FOX Carolina<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among all universities in the country, Furman ranks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>22<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0for best first-year experience (above Yale, Michigan, Auburn and other schools)<\/li>\n<li>32<sup>nd<\/sup> for best undergraduate research program (tied with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Furman is the seventh-ranked liberal arts and sciences university in the South, and the highest ranked university in South Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman is the seventh-ranked liberal arts and sciences university in the South, and the highest ranked university in South Carolina. Furman takes the No. 7 spot for &#8220;most innovative,&#8221; a category in which Furman has appeared every year since 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":34282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3,1569,119,118,6,35,61,140],"tags":[3023,1579],"class_list":["post-34280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-alumni","category-fox-carolina","category-greenville-journal","category-greenville-news","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-the-furman-advantage","category-upstatebizsc","tag-campus-rankings","tag-u-s-news-and-world-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34280","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34280"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34306,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34280\/revisions\/34306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}