U.S. News ranks Penn State Behrend among top regional colleges<\/a>, Penn State Behrend ranks No. 11 among regional colleges in the North and No. 6 among public schools in the region. The college also earned a No. 15 ranking among Best Value Schools and was ranked No. 3 for veterans.<\/p>\nCollege leaders say the rankings reflect the strength of Behrend’s hands-on approach to education, which emphasizes partnerships with businesses and industries to solve real-world problems through internships, capstone projects, and undergraduate research opportunities.<\/p>\n
The U.S. News rankings evaluate colleges using factors such as student-to-faculty ratio, financial aid, graduation rates, and graduate earnings.<\/p>\n
The latest recognition comes on the heels of recent Carnegie Classifications that designated Penn State Behrend as both a “Research College and University” and a “Higher Earnings” institution. The research designation is awarded to colleges that generate at least $2.5 million annually in research and development spending. Behrend reports nearly $10 million in sponsored research each year.<\/p>\n
The Higher Earnings designation recognizes institutions whose graduates earn strong salaries years after enrollment. Only about 10 percent of colleges and universities nationwide received that distinction.<\/p>\n
Chancellor Ralph Ford said the rankings and classifications highlight the success of Behrend graduates and provide reassurance to prospective students and families looking to make a smart investment in higher education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn State Behrend has once again been recognized among the nation’s top regional colleges. According to newly released…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[120970,136,138,137,48023,13842,120971,27229],"class_list":["post-291725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-college-ranking","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-penn-state-behrend","tag-public-schools","tag-regional-colleges","tag-u-s-news-world-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}