{"id":46412,"date":"2011-09-13T09:15:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T13:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=46412"},"modified":"2015-10-20T09:28:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T13:28:31","slug":"u-s-news-ranks-uconn-among-top-20-public-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/09\/u-s-news-ranks-uconn-among-top-20-public-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. News Ranks UConn Among Top 20 Public Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Connecticut is one of the top 20 national public research universities in the nation, according to the annual rankings produced by <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UConn was ranked 27th last year. The University was one of 172 national public institutions \u2013 including 118 &#8220;tier one&#8221; schools \u2013 that were part of this year\u2019s survey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUConn knows it\u2019s a great university and we\u2019re of course thrilled to be recognized for it; breaking the top 20 is important for us as an institution and puts us in some very good company,\u201d said UConn President Susan Herbst. \u201cThere are different schools of thought on the value of college rankings, and institutions can rise and fall for different reasons, but the U.S. News list is important and people do pay attention to it. We have a great reputation, our efforts to ensure our students are staying in school and graduating on time are really paying off, and it\u2019s gratifying to see the University rise so dramatically in the rankings because of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UConn\u2019s graduation rate in 2010 was 81 percent and the University\u2019s freshman retention rate was 93 percent.<\/p>\n<p>UConn was ranked the best public university in New England for the 13th year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>For the full list of public universities ranked, visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\/rankings\/national-universities\/top-public\">http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\/rankings\/national-universities\/top-public<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University rose to 19th among national public universities in the 2012 rankings, up from 27th last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":46444,"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],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[39],"class_list":["post-46412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 03:10:50","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\/46412","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46446,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46412\/revisions\/46446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/46444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46412"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=46412"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=46412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}