{"id":9663,"date":"2019-11-21T21:14:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=9663"},"modified":"2019-11-25T14:38:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T14:38:37","slug":"awards-and-honors-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2019\/11\/21\/awards-and-honors-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards and honors 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Best Regional Universities by U.S. News &amp; World Report <\/strong><br \/>\nU.S. News &amp; World Report again named Augsburg one of the Best Regional Universities in the Midwest in 2019. This year, Augsburg is thirteenth, which makes it the top Minnesota school on the list. Augsburg is also ranked ninth for undergraduate teaching, eighth in its support for veterans, top in the state and sixth overall for innovation, and fourth in promoting social mobility. Rankings are based on average first-year retention rates, graduation rates, class sizes, student-to-faculty ratios, and other information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best in the Midwest by The Princeton Review <\/strong><br \/>\nThe Princeton Review again named Augsburg one of the Best in the Midwest for academic excellence this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25 LGBTQ Friendly Colleges <\/strong><br \/>\nCollege Consensus, a new college review aggregator, recognized Augsburg in its survey of 25 LGBTQ Friendly Colleges of 2019. College Consensus works to bring attention to schools that other ranking publishers overlook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Schools for Indigenous Americans<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 2019, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society\u2019s Winds of Change magazine selected Augsburg as one of the Top 200 Schools for Indigenous American and Alaska Native students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Military Friendly School<\/strong><br \/>\nAugsburg was again named a Military Friendly\u00ae School, a list compiled through extensive research and a free, data-driven survey of more than 10,000 Veterans Administration-approved schools nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>See the full list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/about\/awards\/\">awards and honors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Regional Universities by U.S. News &amp; World Report U.S. News &amp; World Report again named Augsburg one of the Best Regional Universities in the Midwest in 2019. This year, Augsburg is thirteenth, which makes it the top Minnesota school on the list. Augsburg is also ranked ninth for undergraduate teaching, eighth in its support <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":9916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-9663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-fall-winter-2019"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10052,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9663\/revisions\/10052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}