{"id":398,"date":"2011-08-04T14:52:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T18:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=398"},"modified":"2011-08-04T14:52:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T18:52:12","slug":"rollins-university-of-florida-top-state-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/08\/04\/rollins-university-of-florida-top-state-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Rollins, University of Florida Top State Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_399\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 250px;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-399\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/08\/04\/rollins-university-of-florida-top-state-rankings\/visitrollins\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-399\" title=\"visitrollins\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/visitrollins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/visitrollins.jpg 250w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/visitrollins-220x330.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Rollins College<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rollins College in Winter Park.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rollins College and the University of Florida top the list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/top-colleges\/list\/#p_1_s_arank_FL\">Florida schools<\/a> according to <em>Forbes<\/em> ranking of top <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/top-colleges\/list\/#p_1_s_arank_\">colleges and universities<\/a>, though no state schools crack the top 100.<\/p>\n<p>Rollins ranked #133 while UF came in just behind at #137. Florida State University ranked #193, but finished ahead of noted institution New York University.<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts students have the best choices: Williams, Amherst, Harvard and MIT all cracked the top 10. The rankings were <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/michaelnoer\/2011\/08\/03\/americas-top-colleges\/\">based on<\/a> &#8220;quality of teaching, great career prospects, graduation rates and low levels of debt,&#8221; according to <em>Forbes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Fear not Florida, state schools still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/08\/01\/top-college-party-school-_n_915107.html#s319700&amp;title=Ohio_University\">rank near the top<\/a> of one annual list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rollins College and the University of Florida top the list of Florida schools according to Forbes ranking of top colleges and universities, though no state schools crack the top 100. Rollins ranked #133 while UF came in just behind at #137. Florida State University ranked #193, but finished ahead of noted institution New York University. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1012,1013,1041],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}