CSU, Chico Again Ranked Among Top Western Public Universities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 1, 2000
Joe Wills
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CSU, Chico Again Ranked Among Top Western Public Universities
California State University, Chico ranks fifth among top regional public schools in the West in U.S. News and World Report’s 2001 rankings.
The results were posted today, Sept. 1, on U.S. News and World Report’s Web page. The results will be published in U.S. News and World Report’s magazine Tuesday, Sept. 5.
CSU, Chico was ranked sixth in 2000, fifth in 1999 and seventh in 1998 in the same category.
The top five rankings among best Western public universities are Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Western Washington University, Cal Poly Pomona, Montana Tech of the University of Montana and CSU, Chico, respectively.
Among both public and private western universities, CSU, Chico is in the second of four tiers of institutions. In this category, universities are not numerically ranked. Other universities in the second tier include Weber State, Texas Wesleyan, Central Washington and nine other CSU campuses: Sonoma State, Humboldt State, San Jose State, San Francisco State, CSU, Fresno, CSU, Fullerton, CSU, Sacramento, CSU, Long Beach and CSU, Stanislaus.
The four public universities in the top tier of all public and private western universities are Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (ranked fifth), Western Washington (18th) and Cal Poly Pomona and Montana Tech (tied at 26th).
U.S. News uses academic reputation, faculty resources, student selectivity, institutional financial resources, graduation rate performance and alumni giving rate as general criteria for judging schools. U.S. News has been ranking colleges and universities since 1983.
U.S. News places institutions into four categories: national universities, national liberal arts colleges, regional universities and regional liberal arts colleges. The regional schools are divided into one of four geographic areas: north, south, midwest and west. The categories are based on Carnegie classifications published by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Institutional characteristics, such as the number and type of degrees granted, determine a school’s classification.
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