{"id":40802197692,"date":"2014-09-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/monmouth-university-earns-top-40-ranking-from-u-s-news-world-report-for-third-year-in-a-row\/"},"modified":"2021-04-28T09:26:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T13:26:15","slug":"monmouth-university-earns-top-40-ranking-from-u-s-news-world-report-for-third-year-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/monmouth-university-earns-top-40-ranking-from-u-s-news-world-report-for-third-year-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Monmouth University Earns Top 40 Ranking from U.S. News &#038; World Report for Third Year in a Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monmouth University has ranked in the top 40 in U.S. News &amp; World Report&#8217;s annual roster of Best Colleges for the third year in a row. Monmouth is ranked 37 and is one of the fasting-rising universities in its category (Regional Universities North) over the last decade, rising 39 spots since 2005. The University ranked 13th as a best college for veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Monmouth University is also one of the nation&#8217;s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the school in the new 2015 edition of its annual higher education guide, &#8220;The Best 379 Colleges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Monmouth was included on Money magazine&#8217;s first-ever college rankings list of &#8220;Best Colleges for Your Money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted to be recognized by U.S. News &amp; World Report and Princeton Review as one of the best colleges in the nation, and by Money magazine as an institution that provides outstanding value to our students,&#8221; said President Paul R. Brown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of our core values, and strengths, is offering a highly personalized and transformative learning experience which prepares our graduates to be life-long learners,&#8221; Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 edition of U.S. News &amp; World Report&#8217;s Best Colleges includes data on nearly 1,800 schools nationwide to help parents and students evaluate their options. Eligible schools are ranked on up to 16 measures of academic excellence. Outcome-related measures, such as graduation and retention rates, account for 30 percent of the rankings and are the most heavily weighted factors in the <a title=\"Link to College Ranking Methodology Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-colleges\/articles\/2014\/09\/08\/how-us-news-calculated-the-2015-best-colleges-rankings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">methodology<\/a>. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/colleges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.usnews.com\/colleges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Only about 15% of America&#8217;s 2,500 four-year colleges, and only four colleges outside the U.S., are profiled in The Princeton Review&#8217;s college guide. The Princeton Review does not rank the colleges in the book academically or from 1 to 379 in any category. The 80-question survey asks students to rate their own schools on several topics and report on their campus experiences. For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princetonreview.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.PrincetonReview.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University also featured in the Princeton Review&#8217;s Best 379 Colleges and Money Magazine&#8217;s Best Colleges for Your Money<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"person":[],"audience":[14,17,11,8],"school":[],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802197692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","mediacontact-petra-ludwig","audience-alumni","audience-community-member","audience-current-student","audience-faculty"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802197692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802197692"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802197692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802255000,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802197692\/revisions\/40802255000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802197692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802197692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802197692"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802197692"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802197692"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802197692"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802197692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}