Oklahoma Wesleyan University has been listed a allotment of America's Best Colleges by both Forbes and U.S. News & World Report. Each baronial is based on altered belief and is awful approved a allotment of America's institutions of college education.
(Vocus/PRWEB ) August 25, 2009 -- Oklahoma Wesleyan University has been listed a allotment of America's Best Colleges by both Forbes and U.S. News & World Report. Each baronial is based on altered belief and is awful approved a allotment of America's institutions of college education.
Six Hundred institutions are ranked by Forbes, including civic analysis universities and abate advanced arts colleges. Forbes ranks OKWU as #155 in the nation. That makes it the accomplished ranked university (on Forbes' list) of any blazon in Northeast Oklahoma, and additional in Oklahoma, advanced of OU, OSU, TU, UCO and ORU.
This 2010 copy of America's Best Colleges uses the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's 2006 Basic adaptation of its classifications. Carnegie groups American colleges and universities according to their mission as authentic by factors such as the accomplished akin of degrees conferred by discipline. U.S. News & World Report collapses nine of those Carnegie categories into four capital groupings: National Universities, Liberal Arts Colleges, Universities-Master's, and Baccalaureate Colleges. The schools in the Universities-Master's and Baccalaureate Colleges categories are placed into one of four geographic regions: North, South, Midwest, and West. primarily on undergraduate education, just as the advanced arts colleges do, but admission beneath than 50 percent of their degrees in advanced arts disciplines. At these schools, at atomic 10 percent of undergraduate degrees awarded are bachelor's degrees. There are 319 baccalaureate colleges, ranked aural four regions: North, South, Midwest, and West. According to a Forbes columnist release, "Traditionally, institutions of college apprenticeship accept been categorized by their Carnegie classification. U.S. News & World Report and some added rankings use, sometimes with a bit of modification, categories such as National Research Universities or Liberal Arts Colleges. Often a acumen is aswell fabricated amid accessible and clandestine schools. In its amount rankings, we abandon that approach, preferring to account all schools in a individual ranking. It is our acceptance that academy acceptance go to academy to access a bachelor's amount and usually are accessible to accepting it from altered types of institutions."
Forbes goes on to say, "As in 2008, we abject 25% of the rankings on apprentice achievement with their advance instruction. Also, like endure year, we abject addition 25% on indicators of post-graduate application success, and one-sixth (16.67%) on the likelihood of graduation from academy aural four years. Last year, we abounding the estimated boilerplate four-year apprentice accommodation debt at one-sixth (16.67%) in the rankings. Given the ascent costs, debt levels and associated apropos with this issue, we accept added the weight to 20% this year."
The U.S. News & World Report 2010 copy of America's Best Colleges places OKWU at #9, Best in the West, for baccalaureate colleges and the #7 Best Value in the West. U. S. News & World Report break the 1400 colleges and universities into adapted categories for comparisons. It states, "This 2010 copy of America's Best Colleges uses the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's 2006 Basic adaptation of its classifications. Carnegie groups American colleges and universities according to their mission as authentic by factors such as the accomplished akin of degrees conferred by discipline."
"U.S. News & World Report collapses nine of those Carnegie categories into four capital groupings: National Universities, Liberal Arts Colleges, Universities-Master's, and Baccalaureate Colleges. The schools in the Universities-Master's and Baccalaureate Colleges categories are placed into one of four geographic regions: North, South, Midwest, and West."
U. S. News & World Reports defines a baccalaureate academy as one that focuses "primarily on undergraduate education, just as the advanced arts colleges do, but admission beneath than 50 percent of their degrees in advanced arts disciplines. At these schools, at atomic 10 percent of undergraduate degrees awarded are bachelor's degrees. There are 319 baccalaureate colleges, ranked aural four regions: North, South, Midwest, and West." The west includes Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Hawaii and Alaska.
Oklahoma Wesleyan University is a four-year, Christian university of the advanced arts and sciences that is accepted by the North Central Association. OWU aswell receives able accreditation from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), and the International Assembly of Collegiate Business Education (IACBE). It is a affiliate of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities as able-bodied as the Council of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Association of Oklahoma Independent Colleges and Universities.
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