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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s online bachelor’s degree programs have been ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.<\/p>\n
Bemidji State’s online bachelor’s degree programs received a score of 42 in the publication’s 2014 Best Online Bachelor’s Program rankings<\/i><\/a>, tied for 194th nationally with seven other institutions. The rankings included a total of 210 institutions with another 68 schools listed with rankings not published.<\/p>\n “This ranking reflects the quality of our online programs, particularly the credentials of our faculty and the support our students receive,” said Lynn Johnson, director of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s Center for Extended Learning. “Online courses at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ offer the same quality standards in faculty and curriculum as you find in a traditional classroom.”<\/p>\n Long considered one of the state’s leaders in the delivery of online education, Bemidji State is one of three public universities from Minnesota to appear in the rankings. The others: In addition, Minnesota State University, Mankato appeared in the group of schools whose rankings were not published.<\/p>\n Other Minnesota institutions to make the list include Concordia University, St. Paul (tied for 56th) and Crown College (rank not published).<\/p>\n Bemidji State’s online undergraduate programs<\/strong> Online graduate education programs also listed<\/strong> Methodology<\/strong> A complete examination of the methodology used to compile this year’s rankings, which includes the sub-categories used to measure each of the four primary areas used in the rankings, is available at the U.S. News & World Report website<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n Contact<\/strong> Links <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ\u2019s online bachelor\u2019s degree programs have been ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,950,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-landing-page","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19666,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/19666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n• University of Minnesota-Crookston, tied for 69th
\n• University of Minnesota, tied for 160th<\/p>\n
\nBemidji State offers nearly a dozen online undergraduate degree programs, including bachelor of applied science degrees in applied engineering and technology management; bachelor of science degrees in accounting, business administration, criminal justice, elementary education, marketing communication and social work; bachelor of science and bachelor of arts degrees in psychology; and an RN-to-baccalaureate degree completion program in nursing.<\/p>\n
\nBemidji State’s online graduate program in education was listed among the group of schools whose rankings were not published in the U.S. News 2014 Best Online Graduate Education Programs rankings<\/i><\/a>, also announced today. That list ranked 170 institutions and included an additional 56 schools whose rankings were not published. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ was one of seven Minnesota institutions to appear in the online graduate listing; four of those seven were among the 170 ranked programs.<\/p>\n
\nThe 2014 edition of U.S. News’ Best Online Bachelor’s Program rankings compile weighted scores in four primary areas — student engagement, faculty credentials and training, peer reputation, and student services and technology — to determine an overall score. Those overall scores were then rescaled so that the top-scoring school received a score of 100 and the bottom-scoring school received a score of zero. Scores were also rounded to whole-integer values.<\/p>\n
\n• Lynn Johnson<\/a>, director of extended learning; (218) 755-2068<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>• Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Extended Learning
\n<\/a>• U.S. News Best Online Programs 2014<\/i><\/a>
\n• Best Online Bachelor’s Programs 2014<\/i><\/a>
\n• Best Online Graduate Education Programs 2014<\/i><\/a>
\n• Ranking Methodology<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n