{"id":12399,"date":"2015-01-12T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/creative.clemson.edu\/clemsonworld\/?p=12399"},"modified":"2015-01-12T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:00:34","slug":"clemson-hits-top-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/clemson-hits-top-20\/","title":{"rendered":"CADENCE COUNT: Clemson Hits the Top 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_half  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  \" ><blockquote>\n<p><em>This fall, Clemson broke into celebration mode when the <\/em>U.S.News &amp; World Report<em> rankings hit the street. Sitting beside Clemson University\u2019s name on the listing of national public universities was a #20.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The audacious idea that Clemson could rank among the top national universities in the nation was first articulated by President Emeritus Jim Barker in a 10-year plan he set forth in 2000. At that time, Clemson was tied for 38th. It was a bold goal, and it took a bit longer than 10 years.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>So what does it mean to be top 20? For alumni, it means that your degree keeps gaining value each year, as public recognition of a Clemson education grows. There are both quantitative and qualitative factors that go into the rankings. Here are just a few of the pieces of that puzzle.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_half  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  \" ><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>#8<\/h1>\n<p>Up &amp; Coming Universities<\/p>\n<h1>One of 11<\/h1>\n<p>Recognized for Writing Across Disciplines program<\/p>\n<h1>#4<\/h1>\n<p>Alumni Giving<\/p>\n<h1>#31<\/h1>\n<p>Best Undergraduate Engineering Program<\/p>\n<h1>#50<\/h1>\n<p>Best Undergraduate Business Program<\/p>\n<h1>#10<\/h1>\n<p>Average ACT Score (28)<\/p>\n<h1>#21<\/h1>\n<p>Average Math SAT Score (637)<\/p>\n<h1>#18<\/h1>\n<p>Average Critical Reading SAT Score (609)<\/p>\n<h1>#20<\/h1>\n<p>Percentage of Incoming Freshmen who Ranked in top 10% of High School Class (56%)<\/p>\n<h1>57.2%<\/h1>\n<p>Fall 2013 Acceptance Rate<\/p>\n<h1>91%<\/h1>\n<p>Average Freshman Retention Rate<\/p>\n<h1>51%<\/h1>\n<p>Classes with Fewer than 20 Students<\/p>\n<h1>82%<\/h1>\n<p>6-year Graduation Rate<\/p>\n<h1>17:1<\/h1>\n<p>Student-Faculty Ratio<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[159,2352,3047,3123,3298],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cadence-count","category-in-these-hills","tag-alumni","tag-rankings","tag-top-20","tag-u-s-news-world-report","tag-winter-2015"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/12\/TOP-20-cu-v-unc_292.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12399"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}