{"id":27000,"date":"2013-09-10T09:48:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=27000"},"modified":"2013-09-10T09:48:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:48:43","slug":"vcsu-no-2-public-regional-college-in-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=27000","title":{"rendered":"VCSU No. 2 Public Regional College In Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vcsu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7806\" alt=\"vcsu\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vcsu-300x201.png\" 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\" \/><\/a>From VCSU\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Sept 10, 2013)\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 Valley City State University earned the No. 2 spot among Top Public Regional Colleges in the Midwest in the 2014 edition of <i>U.S. News Best Colleges<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the fifth straight year that VCSU has been ranked either first or second in its category, the fifth consecutive year that VCSU has been North Dakota\u2019s highest-rated Public Regional College, and the 16th year in a row that VCSU has been recognized by <i>U.S. News<\/i> as a \u201cBest College.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be consistently ranked highly by <i>U.S. News<\/i> speaks to the quality education we offer,\u201d said VCSU President Steven W. Shirley, \u201cand achieving recognition as a \u2018Best College\u2019 for 16 years is strong testimony to the effort that all members of the Valley City State community generate year in, year out.\u00a0I\u2019m proud of VCSU and the people behind this achievement; this is a very special place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the U.S. News rankings, accredited U.S. colleges and universities are grouped according to their mission and, for some categories, by location. The institutions are then compared based on a set of up to 16 areas related to academic excellence.<\/p>\n<p>Criteria in which VCSU fared well include average class size, peer assessment, student-faculty ratio, and alumni giving. The category \u201cRegional Colleges in the Midwest\u201d includes 99 colleges and universities\u201414 of which are public\u2014across 12 states.<\/p>\n<p>The rankings are available online at www.usnews.com\/colleges and will be published in the 2014 edition of the <i>U.S. News Best Colleges<\/i> guidebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From VCSU\u00a0 Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Sept 10, 2013)\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 Valley City State University earned the No. 2 spot among Top Public Regional Colleges in the Midwest in the 2014 edition of U.S. News Best Colleges. This marks the fifth straight year that VCSU has been ranked either first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27000","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=27000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27027,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27000\/revisions\/27027"}],"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=27000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}