  {"id":524,"date":"2008-08-25T14:07:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T20:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/bsutoday\/2008\/08\/25\/us-news-and-world-report-ranks-bemidji-state-in-midwest-regions-tier-1\/"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:53:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:53:03","slug":"usnwr-ranks-bsu-in-mw-tier-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2008\/08\/25\/usnwr-ranks-bsu-in-mw-tier-1\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. News and World Report ranks Bemidji State in Midwest Region&#039;s Tier 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEMIDJI, Minn.<\/strong> &ndash;  Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ advanced into Tier 1 among Midwestern master&rsquo;s institutions in U.S. News and World Report&rsquo;s America&rsquo;s Best Colleges 2009 survey. Bemidji State was ranked No. 67 in the region, tied with four other institutions.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Five years ago, I challenged the campus to work toward a goal of being recognized as a premier student-centered state university,&rdquo; Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ President <strong>Dr. Jon E. Quistgaard<\/strong> said. &ldquo;Our U.S. News and World Report ranking reflects the collective desire of the faculty, staff and administration at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ to continue providing access to incredible learning opportunities for our students. It also reflects the achievement of Bemidji State&rsquo;s 44,000 alumni around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In a time of increasing expectations and significant challenges, being ranked amongst the top tier of institutions of our type in the Midwest is no easy achievement,&rdquo; Quistgaard said.<\/p>\n<p>Master&rsquo;s universities are defined in the rankings as institutions which offer a full range of undergraduate programs and some master&rsquo;s programs, but few doctoral programs. The rankings split 572 universities into four regions, ranking schools in the North, South, Midwest and West.<\/p>\n<p>Bemidji State was one of seven schools in Minnesota that appeared in the regional lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. News and World Report survey ranks schools based on peer assessment, retention rates, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources, graduation rate performance and alumni giving rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI, Minn. &ndash; Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ advanced into Tier 1 among Midwestern master&rsquo;s institutions in U.S. News and World Report&rsquo;s America&rsquo;s Best Colleges 2009 survey. Bemidji State was ranked No. 67 in the region, tied with four other institutions. &ldquo;Five years ago, I challenged the campus to work toward a goal of being recognized as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44395,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/44395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}