{"id":4642,"date":"2014-10-13T18:43:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T18:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=4642"},"modified":"2017-03-21T15:39:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T15:39:30","slug":"augsburg-named-list-top-colleges-older-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/13\/augsburg-named-list-top-colleges-older-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg named to list of top colleges for older students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4645 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/10\/bestcolleges1-300x84.png\" alt=\"bestcolleges1\" width=\"300\" height=\"84\" \/>The college planning website <strong>BestColleges.com<\/strong> has named Augsburg to its list of the top\u00a0colleges for older students. Augsburg is ranked No. 9, making it the highest listed\u00a0Minnesota\u00a0institution.<\/p>\n<p>In order to create the rankings, BestColleges.com examined all schools with a nontraditional student body of 25 percent\u00a0or more\u00a0and then narrowed its\u00a0list to only those schools that provide a high quality education. The site examined each school&#8217;s academics, student engagement, percentage of students above age 25, and programs geared toward nontraditional students.\u00a0The site trimmed its\u00a0list to 50 schools by examining institutions&#8217; range of degree programs at the baccalaureate level or higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The college planning website BestColleges.com has named Augsburg to its list of the top\u00a0colleges for older students. Augsburg is ranked No. 9, making it the highest listed\u00a0Minnesota\u00a0institution. In order to create the rankings, BestColleges.com examined all schools with a nontraditional student body of 25 percent\u00a0or more\u00a0and then narrowed its\u00a0list to only those schools that provide &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,3228,7,8],"tags":[3388,3386,3389,849,3636,3387],"class_list":["post-4642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-articles","category-faculty","category-kudos","category-staff","category-students","tag-adult-undergraduate","tag-bestcolleges-com","tag-college-honors","tag-diversity","tag-inclusion","tag-rankings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4642"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7542,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642\/revisions\/7542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}