{"id":19336,"date":"2010-08-17T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=19336"},"modified":"2010-09-01T08:29:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T12:29:45","slug":"uconn-remains-new-englands-top-public-university-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/08\/uconn-remains-new-englands-top-public-university-for-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Remains New England&#8217;s Top Public University for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"660\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DOGMux1E6Eo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"660\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DOGMux1E6Eo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;border=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s 2011 Best Colleges<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>ranks UConn 27th out of more than 150 public national universities in the country. UConn remains the top-ranked public university in New England for the 12th consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re pleased to again be ranked among the top public universities in the nation and the best in New England,\u201d noted Lee Melvin, vice president for enrollment management. \u201cWe all recognize the rankings have limitations, but <em>U.S. News<\/em> is a key source of information for parents and their children when considering a college, so we\u2019re always happy to be among the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/usnews_photo_lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19348 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"usnews_photo_lg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/usnews_photo_lg-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"usnews_photo_lg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/usnews_photo_lg-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/usnews_photo_lg.jpg 700w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/201;\" \/><\/a>UConn, which tied with Virginia Tech, has been ranked among the top 30 public universities nationally since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Also ranked highly in the magazine was UConn\u2019s School of Business undergraduate program, which moved into the top 25 among public national universities for the first time, tying with several schools at 24th.<\/p>\n<p><em>U.S. News<\/em> recognition reflects UConn\u2019s continued strong performance on measures related to attracting quality students with high SAT scores and a solid high school rank in class, and then having them graduate from rigorous academic programs at a high rate and in a timely fashion when compared to the University&#8217;s peers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn remains the top-ranked public university in New England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[56,37],"class_list":["post-19336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 17:57:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19340,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336\/revisions\/19340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19336"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=19336"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}