{"id":1614,"date":"2018-01-03T11:43:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ece.ncsu.edu\/2018\/01\/nc-state-climbs-on-best-value-list\/"},"modified":"2018-01-03T11:43:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:43:04","slug":"nc-state-climbs-on-best-value-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/2018\/nc-state-climbs-on-best-value-list\/","title":{"rendered":"NC State Climbs on Best Value List"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NC State moved up on a list of universities that offer the best value for the money, ranking in the top 10 among public schools for both in-state and out-of-state students. The annual list of best college values, published by Kiplinger\u2019s Personal Finance<\/em>, identifies four-year schools that combine outstanding academic quality and affordability.<\/p>\n

For in-state students, NC State jumped from 18th place last year to ninth on this year\u2019s list. The university rose from ninth to seventh place for out-of-state students. Among all colleges \u2014\u00a0public and private \u2014\u00a0NC State moved up 10 spots this year to rank 66th overall out of 300 schools.<\/p>\n

Kiplinger\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>measures a variety of standards<\/a> such as admission rate, graduation rate, freshman retention rate and student-faculty ratio. Cost criteria include abundant financial aid and low average debt at graduation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"NC State is among the top 10 best values in public higher education for both in-state and out-of-state students, according to Kiplinger\u2019s Personal Finance. The annual ranking measures both academic quality and affordability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.ece.ncsu.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}