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Top-Ranked Universities That Grant the Most STEM Degrees
Tweet Share on Facebook June 18, 2013 CommentWhat are the leading STEM universities in the U.S.?
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FAQs on the 2013 Teacher Prep Ratings
Tweet Share on Facebook June 18, 2013 CommentThe National Council on Teacher Quality has just released the first NCTQ Teacher Prep Ratings with U.S. News & World Report as the publisher. While the NCTQ website has ratings on 2,420 teacher preparation programs at 1,130 institutions, on usnews.com we've published a subset: overall program ratings for 1,200 undergraduate and graduate teacher preparation programs offered at 608 schools.
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Top High Schools With the Most Minority, Disadvantaged Students
Tweet Share on Facebook June 13, 2013 CommentThere were many gold medal public high schools – which ranked in the top 500 in the U.S. News 2013 Best High Schools rankings – that had large proportions of economically disadvantaged students or very high percentages of minority students enrolled.
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Which Highly Ranked Law Schools Operate Most Efficiently?
Tweet Share on Facebook May 30, 2013 CommentMany law schools are facing tight budgets and in some cases, declining enrollments. As a result, it's important for many law schools to spend their limited resources efficiently in order to produce the highest possible educational quality.
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Correcting Dominican University of California's 2011 Admissions Statistics
Tweet Share on Facebook May 24, 2013 CommentOn May 2, Dominican University of California advised U.S. News that it had misreported data to U.S. News on the number of applications it received for the fall 2011 entering class.
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Updates to 2 Schools' 2013 Best Colleges Ranks
Tweet Share on Facebook May 14, 2013 CommentTwo schools – University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and York College of Pennsylvania – recently advised U.S. News that they submitted inflated data that were used in the 2013 Best Colleges rankings, resulting in their numerical ranks being higher than they otherwise might have been. In both cases, the same incorrect data were also reported to many other parties including the U.S. Department of Education.
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Why U.S. News Ranks Online Programs for Veterans
Tweet Share on Facebook May 7, 2013 CommentU.S. News has just published its inaugural Best Online Programs for Veterans rankings, available only at usnews.com. We believe these are the first rankings to focus specifically on military veterans in the evaluation of online degree programs.
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How States Compare Among Bronze Medal High Schools
Tweet Share on Facebook May 2, 2013 CommentA state-by-state breakdown of the bronze medal 2013 Best High Schools, displayed in the table below, shows that Mississippi is the top performer, with 29.8 percent of its eligible schools earning a bronze medal. North Dakota came in second with 28.4 percent, and Wyoming was third with 27 percent.
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Why High Schools Moved Up and Down in the Rankings
Tweet Share on Facebook April 23, 2013 CommentA frequently asked question about the newly released U.S. News 2013 Best High Schools rankings will likely be why schools rose or fell in the rankings. There are several possible reasons for this movement.
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Which Law Schools' Grads Get the Most Judicial Clerkships?
Tweet Share on Facebook April 11, 2013 CommentJudges at federal, state and local levels say that their clerks play a very important role in their chambers. Judicial clerkships are highly coveted by law school graduates since they have such important career implications. Federal clerkships are the hardest to get, but can be very rewarding for one's legal career.
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