{"id":30803,"date":"2014-05-22T15:22:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T22:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=30803"},"modified":"2014-05-22T15:22:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T22:22:56","slug":"nau-ranks-high-online-programs-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-ranks-high-online-programs-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU ranks high for online programs for veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Arizona University has been ranked among the nation\u2019s best universities for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/online-education\/bachelors\/veteran-rankings\">online bachelor\u2019s degree programs<\/a> for veterans, according to <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The same publication also ranked NAU\u2019s online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/online-education\/education\/veteran-rankings\">graduate program in education<\/a> among the top 25 in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recognition by <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em> is well deserved and does not come as a surprise to me,\u201d said <strong>Andrew Griffin<\/strong>, director of NAU\u2019s Office of Military and Veteran Affairs. \u201cFor several years now, NAU has placed an emphasis toward quality online academic programs for the military and veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griffin credited NAU\u2019s \u201cteam effort\u201d for its success with veterans\u2019 education but specifically cited the staff within Extended Campuses for its support.<\/p>\n<p>The rankings, now in their second year, were designed to help veterans identify high-quality online degree programs that suit their educational needs.<\/p>\n<p>To be ranked, an online degree program had to report participation in four key programs that offer educational benefits to people with military service. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/online-education\/articles\/2014\/05\/20\/methodology-best-online-programs-for-veterans-rankings\">rankings methodology<\/a> requires programs to belong to institutions that are certified for the GI Bill; they must also belong to schools participating in the Yellow Ribbon Program or public institutions that charge in-state tuition for all out-of-state veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-ranks-high-online-programs-veterans\/\">Northern Arizona University has been ranked among the nation\u2019s best universities for online bachelor\u2019s degree programs for veterans, according to U.S. News &amp; World Report. The same publication also ranked NAU\u2019s online graduate program in education among the top 25 in the United States. \u201cThe recognition by U.S. News &amp; World Report is well deserved&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":16044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[303,817,816,815],"class_list":["post-30803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","tag-extended-campuses","tag-military-and-veteran-support","tag-military-friendly","tag-u-s-news-and-world-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}