{"id":7669,"date":"2018-09-06T14:24:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T18:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/06\/ranked-among-the-best\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:11:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:11:32","slug":"ranked-among-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/ranked-among-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranked among the best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman is ranked among the best American colleges and universities\u2014and the highest among South Carolina schools\u2014in the 2018 rankings released by The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education.<\/p>\n<p>Furman ranked No. 151 out of 968 U.S. institutions that made the list.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal\/Times Higher Education College Ranking is designed to \u201cput graduate success and student learning at its heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Developed in partnership with U.S. experts and universities, the rankings use 15 individual performance metrics, grouped into four pillars representing Resources (30%), Engagement (20%), Outcomes (40%) and Environment (10%). The performance indicators answer the questions that matter the most when students are choosing a university.<\/p>\n<p>The complete list of ranked U.S. colleges and universities is available <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/explore-the-full-wsj-the-college-rankings-1536187754\">here<\/a><\/strong> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman is ranked among the best American colleges and universities\u2014and the highest among South Carolina schools\u2014in the 2018 rankings released by The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education. Furman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669","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=7669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}