{"id":761,"date":"2012-09-12T15:11:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T19:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/09\/12\/furman-gets-thumbs-up-from-its-alums\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:18:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:18:39","slug":"furman-gets-thumbs-up-from-its-alums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-gets-thumbs-up-from-its-alums\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman gets thumbs up from alums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/alumni-factor1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4013 lazyload\" title=\"alumni-factor\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/alumni-factor1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"108\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 118px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 118\/108;\" \/><\/a>Furman is listed in a new publication that ranks colleges and universities according to the satisfaction of their alumni.\u00a0 <em>The Alumni Factor<\/em> profiled 177 institutions who received highly positive reviews from their graduates.\u00a0 Furman was ranked 33rd among the 53 liberal arts colleges who made the list and 64th overall.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Alumni Factor<\/em> aims to \u201cunderstand how well a college or university actually develops and shapes its students, and what becomes of them after they graduate.\u201d The rankings are based almost entirely on data and insights from the college alumni themselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alumnifactor.com\/\">Visit the Alumni Factor website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman is listed in a new publication that ranks colleges and universities according to the satisfaction of their alumni.\u00a0 <em>The Alumni Factor<\/em> profiled 177 institutions who received highly positive reviews from their graduates.\u00a0 Furman was ranked 33rd among the 53 liberal arts colleges who made the list and 64th overall. The publication\u00a0aims to \u201cunderstand how well a college or university actually develops and shapes its students, and what becomes of them after they graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","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=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}