{"id":114464,"date":"2017-01-11T16:52:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T22:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=114464"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:53:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T22:53:53","slug":"vcsus-on-line-programs-nationally-recognized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=114464","title":{"rendered":"VCSU&#8217;s on-line programs nationally recognized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7806\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vcsu-300x201.png\" alt=\"vcsu\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vcsu-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vcsu-260x175.png 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vcsu.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU- CSi)\u00a0 Valley City State University\u2019s online graduate education and bachelor\u2019s degree programs have earned national recognition in the 2017 U.S. News Best Online Program rankings.<\/p>\n<p>In the Best Online Graduate Education Program rankings, VCSU is ranked 47 of 275 schools that were evaluated.<\/p>\n<p>James Boe, Ph.D., and VCSU director for graduate studies and research says, \u201cWe are very pleased by the rankings. \u00a0The personal attention we give to our students and our flexible delivery methods play a big part in our success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds, \u201cOur M.Ed. program has unique concentrations to meet the needs of K-12 educators, and the new M.A.T. program increases our ability to meet the critical teacher shortage in North Dakota. We will continue to seek innovative ways to provide our students with quality graduate programs at VCSU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>VCSU offers two online master\u2019s degree programs in education\u2014the Master of Education (M.Ed.) program and the Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) program. The M.A.T. is designed for individuals who already have a non-teaching bachelor\u2019s degree and would like to become a teacher, while the Master of Education degree is designed for practicing teachers. The M.Ed. program offers six concentrations: elementary education, English education, library and information technologies, teaching English language learners, teaching and technology, and technology education.<\/p>\n<p>The 47th place ranking for VCSU\u2019s graduate education program represents a considerable move upward compared to the 2016 rankings; last year VCSU was ranked 83rd among 263 listed schools.<\/p>\n<p>More information on VCSU\u2019s graduate education programs can be found online at vcsu.edu\/graduate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU- CSi)\u00a0 Valley City State University\u2019s online graduate education and bachelor\u2019s degree programs have earned national recognition in the 2017 U.S. News Best Online Program rankings. In the Best Online Graduate Education Program rankings, VCSU is ranked 47 of 275 schools that were evaluated. James Boe, Ph.D., and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114465,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114464\/revisions\/114465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}