
{"id":3319,"date":"2008-08-28T07:21:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T15:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2008-08-28T07:21:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T15:21:24","slug":"carolina-ranked-5th-best-public-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/08\/28\/carolina-ranked-5th-best-public-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina ranked 5th best public university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks fifth among the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best public universities for the eighth consecutive year, according to U.S. News &#038; World Report magazine.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Carolina is consistently recognized among the five best public universities in America,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Chancellor Holden Thorp. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We find value in assessing the various measures that determine such rankings. In the case of U.S. News, we are most interested in results from areas including faculty resources and student success. Our focus is on retaining and attracting excellent faculty, who are the key to recruiting the very best students from North Carolina and beyond to Chapel Hill.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The new rankings appear in the 2009 edition of the magazine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Best Colleges\u00e2\u20ac\u009d guidebook and were posted at www.usnews.com last Friday. The Sept. 1 edition of the magazine and the guidebook hit newsstands this next week.<\/p>\n<p> public universities, Berkeley was first, followed by Virginia (second) UCLA (third), Michigan (fourth) and UNC (fifth). Overall, Carolina ranked 30th among public and private national universities. In that list, other top publics ranked between 21st (Berkeley) and 26th (Michigan). UNC tied with Tufts University at 28th last year. The same 25 privates and five publics have appeared in the magazine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top 30 spots for the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>The rankings, which are dominated by private universities, are based on a formula factoring in responses to opinion surveys about academic quality from peer campus presidents, provosts or admissions officials. Objective data covers areas such as student graduation and retention rates, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources and alumni giving.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dUNC News Services<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks fifth among the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best public universities for the eighth consecutive year, according to U.S. News &#038; World Report magazine. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Carolina is consistently recognized among the five best public universities in America,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Chancellor Holden Thorp. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We find value in assessing the various measures that determine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}