UC comes up in USNEWS rankings!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Cincinnati
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<p>Way up...156th among National Universities!</p>

<p>From uc.edu/news:

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The University of Cincinnati is among the America’s Best National Universities, according to U.S. News & World Report, and UC's reputation is rising. </p>

<p>The latest issue of the magazine’s influential Best Colleges guide ranks the University of Cincinnati 156th among the national universities. </p>

<p>The National Universities category consists of the institutions "that offer a wide range of undergraduate majors as well as master’s and doctoral degrees; some emphasize research,” according to the college guide.</p>

<p>In previous editions, the University of Cincinnati had been listed among the guide’s “third tier” schools. Schools in that tier were listed alphabetically and unranked.

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<p>Really. UC has always been third tier (listed alphabetically as falling somewhere between 120 and 180) since I started looking at the rankings. This year, USN&WR extended individual rankings down past 200, and UC was listed at 156. It just seems as though this change in rankings has given the impression of jumping into tier 1, when they’re really just pretty much where they’ve always been. Tier 1 was lowered to meet UC; not the other way around.</p>

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<p>Many UC schools have international reputations: CCM, DAAP, and Engineering, because of the co-op program. Not to mention all the graduate programs and fantastic research opportunities/accomplishments.</p>

<p>I always take the USN&WR rankings with a grain of salt because they measure a university as a whole, when everyone knows you need to look at the particular school or college you are interested in, within any university. However, UC’s average GPA & freshman ACT scores are on the rise, so the uni as a whole has improved.</p>

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<p>But UC was named one of the most beautiful campuses in the world by Forbes:</p>

<p>[Forbes</a> Magazine lists University of Cincinnati among world’s most beautiful campuses, University of Cincinnati](<a href=“http://magazine.uc.edu/extra/forbes.html]Forbes”>http://magazine.uc.edu/extra/forbes.html)</p>

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<p>^Seriously, 30 years ago it was littered with ugly, cheap little buildings, one of which had been erected on a former grassy common (called Old Commons, to call attention to the fact, I suppose.) They have undone the mistakes of the past, added green space, and erected wonderful new buildings. I enjoy visiting my son there–the architecture is really interesting.</p>