{"id":13290,"date":"2011-09-20T01:05:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T06:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13290"},"modified":"2011-09-20T01:05:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T06:05:38","slug":"military-academies-rank-among-best-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/20\/military-academies-rank-among-best-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Academies Rank Among Best Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>US News and World Report<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\/rankings\/national-universities\">ranking of institutions<\/a> of higher learning is topped by Harvard and Princeton, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\/united-states-air-force-academy-128328\/overall-rankings\">US Air Force Academy<\/a> posted a strong #2 in the country for Aerospace \/ Aeronautical \/ Astronautical undergraduate programs, and #5 for overall Best Undergraduate Engineering programs.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\/united-states-military-academy-197036\/overall-rankings\">US Military Academy<\/a> at West Point was <!--more-->#3 for Engineering and #2 for Civil Engineering, while the <a href=\"http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\/united-states-naval-academy-164155\/overall-rankings\">US Naval Academy<\/a> at Annapolis was tied at #5 for Engineering programs and #6 for Mechanical Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The academies routinely fall near the top of <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/09\/military-academies-again-top-princeton-rankings\/\">Princeton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/19\/forbes-ranks-usafa-at-11\/\">Forbes<\/a>, and the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/academies-top-us-news-best-colleges-list\/\">US News<\/a><\/em> rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The US military academies produce around 20% of the military&#8217;s officers, and they do so while providing educations that rank at the top of the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US News and World Report&#8216;s ranking of institutions of higher learning is topped by Harvard and Princeton, but the US Air Force Academy posted a strong #2 in the country for Aerospace \/ Aeronautical \/ Astronautical undergraduate programs, and #5 for overall Best Undergraduate Engineering programs. The US Military Academy at West Point was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[133,2232,2,2231,2230,65,231,473,101],"class_list":["post-13290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-annapolis","tag-engineering","tag-military","tag-ranking","tag-us-news-and-world-report","tag-usafa","tag-usma","tag-usna","tag-west-point"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}