{"id":25659,"date":"2019-09-09T13:06:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T17:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=25659"},"modified":"2019-09-30T16:45:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T20:45:02","slug":"college-polls-rank-fsc-high-in-dollars-and-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2019\/09\/09\/college-polls-rank-fsc-high-in-dollars-and-cents\/","title":{"rendered":"College Polls Rank FSC High in Dollars and Cents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The votes have been tallied, and the latest Best Colleges polls by <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report, Washington Monthly, PayScale.com, <\/em>and <em>Money <\/em>give FSC high marks in several key areas.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>U.S. News<\/em> poll is particularly satisfying: Among public colleges in the North region, FSC placed #11.\u00a0 When you include both public and private colleges, Farmingdale ranks #21.\u00a0 &#8220;Best Value&#8221; came in at #12 &#8211; up six spots over last year. The college ranks #11 in the &#8220;Best Colleges for Veterans&#8221; category.<\/p>\n<p>The good news continues. <em>Washington Monthly<\/em> ranks Farmingdale in the top one-third of 386 baccalaureate-granting colleges in the Northeast for &#8220;Best Bang for the Buck.&#8221; Schools are ranked, says the magazine, &#8220;according to how well they help non-wealthy students attain marketable degrees at affordable prices.&#8221; Even more impressive, FSC polls at #39 among 216 baccalaureate schools. <em>Washington Monthly<\/em> goes on to say: &#8220;We rank baccalaureate colleges based on their contribution to the public good in three broad categories: social mobility, research, and promoting public service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Money<\/em> says FSC is in the top 40% of colleges in &#8220;Best Colleges for Your Money,&#8221; and that we are &#8220;a crucial part of the SUNY system.&#8221; <em>Payscale.com<\/em> also gives FSC a hearty thumbs up when it comes to value, ranking the College #170 in a sampling of 2,000 academic institutions. And within SUNY, FSC ranks #4 in ROI (Return on Investment) after Maritime, Binghamton, and Stony Brook.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, these polls reveal what the campus community already knows: FSC offers a first-rate education, at a price that&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The votes have been tallied, and the latest Best Colleges polls by U.S. News &amp; World Report, Washington Monthly, PayScale.com, and Money give FSC high marks in several key areas. The U.S. News poll is particularly satisfying: Among public colleges in the North region, FSC placed #11.\u00a0 When you include both public and private colleges, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":25737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25659"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26170,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25659\/revisions\/26170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}