{"id":677,"date":"2012-08-02T15:13:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T19:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/08\/02\/furman-listed-in-forbes-annual-rankings\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:47:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:47:26","slug":"furman-listed-in-forbes-annual-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-listed-in-forbes-annual-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman listed in Forbes&#8217; annual rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/forbes-photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3666 lazyload\" title=\"forbes-photo\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/forbes-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"263\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 195px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 195\/263;\" \/><\/a>Furman is included in <em>Forbes<\/em> magazine\u2019s annual ranking of \u201cAmerica\u2019s Top Colleges.\u201d\u00a0 The university is listed at No. 20 in the category of top Southern colleges, and is ranked No. 96 among the top 200 colleges and universities in America.<\/p>\n<p>According to the magazine, its \u201cannual list of America&#8217;s best undergraduate institutions focuses on educational outcomes, not reputations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rankings are based on five general categories: post graduate success (32.5%), which evaluates alumni pay and prominence; student satisfaction (27.5%), which includes professor evaluations and freshman to sophomore year retention rates; debt (17.5%), which penalizes schools for high student debt loads and default rates.; four-year graduation rate (11.25%); and competitive awards (11.25%), which rewards schools whose students win prestigious scholarships and fellowships like the Rhodes, the Marshall and the Fulbright or go on to earn a Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/top-colleges\/\">Visit Forbes \u201cAmerica\u2019s Top Colleges\u201d website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman is included in\u00a0<em>Forbes<\/em> magazine\u2019s annual ranking of \u201cAmerica\u2019s Top Colleges.\u201d The university is listed at No. 20 in the category of top Southern colleges, and is ranked No. 96 among the top 200 colleges and universities in America.\u00a0According to the magazine, its \u201cannual list of America&#8217;s best undergraduate institutions focuses on educational outcomes, not reputations.\u201d\u00a0The rankings are based on five general categories: post graduate success, student satisfaction, debt, four-year graduation rate and competitive awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,34,3,6,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-admission","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}