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U.Va. ranked No. 2 public university by U.S. News
U.Va. ranked No. 2 public university by U.S. News
Ranking moves up one from last year’s list
by Dani Bernstein and Hailey Ross | Sep 13 2016 | 9 hours ago
The University of Virginia was named the No. 2 public university in the country — up one spot from last year’s No. 3 ranking — in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 college rankings. Last month, Business Insider ranked the University the top public university in the nation, while the Princeton Review named the University among its 381 best colleges in a list that does not rank colleges numerically.
U.S. News has released Best College rankings since 1983, and the University has consistently ranked among the top three public schools in the nation. This year, the University shares the No. 2 spot with the University of California-Los Angeles, which previously tied with the University in 2014 before the University fell in the rankings last year. Both schools came behind the University of California-Berkeley, which U.S. News ranked first in the nation.
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The University also ranked No. 24 overall out of the 310 public, private and nonprofit “national universities” which were considered in the ranking.
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Eighty-nine percent of the University’s 2015 incoming class graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school classes. ... In addition, the University had the best average first-year retention rate at 97 percent and the top 2015 graduation rate at 93 percent.
Ranking moves up one from last year’s list
by Dani Bernstein and Hailey Ross | Sep 13 2016 | 9 hours ago
The University of Virginia was named the No. 2 public university in the country — up one spot from last year’s No. 3 ranking — in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 college rankings. Last month, Business Insider ranked the University the top public university in the nation, while the Princeton Review named the University among its 381 best colleges in a list that does not rank colleges numerically.
U.S. News has released Best College rankings since 1983, and the University has consistently ranked among the top three public schools in the nation. This year, the University shares the No. 2 spot with the University of California-Los Angeles, which previously tied with the University in 2014 before the University fell in the rankings last year. Both schools came behind the University of California-Berkeley, which U.S. News ranked first in the nation.
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The University also ranked No. 24 overall out of the 310 public, private and nonprofit “national universities” which were considered in the ranking.
....
Eighty-nine percent of the University’s 2015 incoming class graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school classes. ... In addition, the University had the best average first-year retention rate at 97 percent and the top 2015 graduation rate at 93 percent.