{"id":208203,"date":"2020-09-17T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=208203"},"modified":"2020-09-18T07:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T12:44:12","slug":"vcsu-named-hidden-gem-plains-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=208203","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Named &#8220;Hidden Gem,&#8221; Plains Region"},"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=\"\" 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vcsu.edu\/vcsu-named-a-hidden-gem-in-the-plains-region-by-college-raptor\/\">(VCSU<\/a>)\u00a0 Valley City State University has been named one of the 2021 \u201cHidden Gems in the Plains Region\u201d by College Raptor, a college search platform that serves students, parents and counselors.<\/p>\n<p>VCSU is one of 21 Great Plains schools selected as a \u201cHidden Gem.\u201d College Raptor uses publicly available data to evaluate each college. Factors include first-year retention rate, median ACT\/SAT scores for incoming freshmen, average faculty salary, student-to-faculty ratio, admission selectivity, endowment per student and four- and six-year graduation rates.<\/p>\n<p>All data used in the College Raptor Best Colleges rankings is self-reported by colleges to the National Center for Education Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cHidden Gem Colleges in the Plains Region\u201d rankings can be found online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegeraptor.com\/find-colleges\/articles\/hidden-gems-2021\/hidden-gem-colleges-in-the-plains-region-2021-rankings\/\">www.collegeraptor.com\/find-colleges\/articles\/hidden-gems-2021\/hidden-gem-colleges-in-the-plains-region-2021-rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU)\u00a0 Valley City State University has been named one of the 2021 \u201cHidden Gems in the Plains Region\u201d by College Raptor, a college search platform that serves students, parents and counselors. VCSU is one of 21 Great Plains schools selected as a \u201cHidden Gem.\u201d College Raptor uses publicly [&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-208203","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\/208203","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=208203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208204,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208203\/revisions\/208204"}],"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=208203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}