{"id":45063,"date":"2016-09-13T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=45063"},"modified":"2016-09-29T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T16:46:09","slug":"engineering-program-earns-top-50-spot-u-s-news-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/engineering-program-earns-top-50-spot-u-s-news-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering program earns top 50 spot in \u2018U.S. News\u2019 rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/cefns\/engineering\/\">engineering program at Northern Arizona University<\/a> was ranked\u00a0in the\u00a0<em>U.S. News<\/em>\u00a0Best Colleges, 2017\u00a0Edition, released this week.<\/p>\n<p>NAU ranked No. 42 on the publication\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\/rankings\/engineering-no-doctorate\">annual list of engineering schools<\/a> whose highest degree is a bachelor\u2019s or master\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m gratified that engineering has been recognized by U.S News &amp; World Report Best Colleges,&#8221; said\u00a0NAU President <strong>Rita Cheng<\/strong>. &#8220;This directly reflects NAU\u2019s commitment to growing research activity and enhanced STEM educational opportunities and programs to meet workforce needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>U.S. News<\/em> surveyed engineering school deans and faculty members\u00a0in spring 2016 and asked them to rate each program they were familiar with for these rankings. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-colleges\/articles\/undergraduate-engineering-programs-methodology\">Learn more about the methodology online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/engineering-program-earns-top-50-spot-u-s-news-rankings\/\">The engineering program at Northern Arizona University was ranked\u00a0in the\u00a0U.S. News\u00a0Best Colleges, 2017\u00a0Edition, released this week. NAU ranked No. 42 on the publication\u2019s annual list of engineering schools whose highest degree is a bachelor\u2019s or master\u2019s. \u201cI\u2019m gratified that engineering has been recognized by U.S News &amp; World Report Best Colleges,&#8221; said\u00a0NAU President Rita Cheng.&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":45069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-academics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45063","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}