{"id":6790,"date":"2017-08-02T21:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T01:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/02\/one-of-the-souths-best\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:07:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:07:24","slug":"one-of-the-souths-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/one-of-the-souths-best\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the South&#8217;s best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the 2017 <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/anismuslimin\/2017\/08\/02\/top-25-colleges-in-the-south-2017\/2\/#5980d3b463cc\">Forbes<\/a><\/em><\/strong> rankings, Furman University is listed among the \u201cTop 25 Colleges in the South.\u201d Furman, which was ranked No. 16, is the only South Carolina school to make the just-released list.<\/p>\n<p>According to the magazine, the Forbes \u201cTop Colleges\u201d ranking places \u201cits focus solely on the direct benefits a college or university provides its students. Favoring output over input, we eschew common metrics like acceptance rate, endowment and freshmen SAT scores\u2014numbers that say far more about a school\u2019s \u201cprestige\u201d than its actual effectiveness\u2014and instead favor variables like alumni salary, graduation rate and student satisfaction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the 2017 Forbes rankings, Furman University is listed among the \u201cTop 25 Colleges in the South.\u201d Furman, which was ranked No. 16, is the only South Carolina school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,35,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-the-furman-advantage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790","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=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}