{"id":400,"date":"2009-08-08T00:22:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T04:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/08\/military-academies-top-best-colleges-list\/"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:16:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:16:36","slug":"military-academies-top-best-colleges-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/08\/military-academies-top-best-colleges-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Academies Top Best Colleges List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barely a week after topping the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/29\/princetons-2010-university-rankings\/\">Princeton rankings for the best American universities<\/a>, the US military academies again\u00a0excelled\u00a0when\u00a0<em>Forbes<\/em> magazine and the Center for College Affordability and Productivity ranked the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/08\/02\/colleges-university-ratings-opinions-colleges-09-intro.html\">nation&#8217;s 600 best colleges<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0The US Military Academy at West Point topped the list at #1.\u00a0 The US Air Force Academy came in at #7, and the US Naval Academy at Annapolis ranked #30.\u00a0 The complete list can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/lists\/2009\/94\/colleges-09_Americas-Best-Colleges_Rank.html\">seen here<\/a>.\u00a0 (Both the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2009\/08\/07\/25619-forbes-ranks-west-point-as-nations-top-college\/\">Army<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/csmng.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/07\/forbes-ranks-academy-7th-best-in-nation\/\">Air Force<\/a> also highlighted the news.)<\/p>\n<p>Forbes said they used a somewhat different criteria than some ranking systems:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Will my courses be interesting and rewarding?<br \/>\nWill I get a good job after I graduate?<br \/>\nIs it likely I will graduate in four years?<br \/>\nWill I incur a ton of debt getting my degree?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the fact that graduates have secure jobs with reasonable pay and no debt, it make sense that military academies would rise near the top of the list.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes also has an interesting article on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2009\/0824\/colleges-09-education-west-point-america-best-college.html\">How West Point beats the Ivy League<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barely a week after topping the Princeton rankings for the best American universities, the US military academies again\u00a0excelled\u00a0when\u00a0Forbes magazine and the Center for College Affordability and Productivity ranked the nation&#8217;s 600 best colleges.\u00a0\u00a0The US Military Academy at West Point topped the list at #1.\u00a0 The US Air Force Academy came in at #7, and the US Naval Academy at Annapolis [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","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=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}