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Heidi Tyline King | 2/28/2020

FSU Breaks Top 20 Nationally

The accolades keep rolling in for Florida State University, which is partly why U.S. News & World Report ranked the school No.18 in its Best Colleges 2020 guidebook. The rise is due in part to the university’s designation as a preeminent university by the state Legislature in 2013. This designation increased funding, money that has been invested in new faculty and programs that contributed to FSU’s four-year graduation rate of 72% — the highest of any school in the State University System.

Among recent developments of note:

• Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Best College Value poll named FSU the No. 3 best value among public colleges for outof- state students.

• The university was selected for the top award in international education and study abroad programming by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.

• The College of Business ranks No.13 overall, No.11 among public schools on U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 list of Best Online MBA Programs for Veterans.

• The College of Law is No.1 in Florida in job placement and maintains one of the highest bar passage rates.

• Best’s Review 2018 named the College of Business’s undergraduate risk management and insurance program one of four Top Performers for risk management and insurance undergraduate curriculums.

• In 2019, FSU was one of only nine public universities in the U.S. to receive an AA+ rating from S&P Global Ratings. FSU has also earned a high grade for financial management, receiving an AA+ rating in 2019 from Fitch Ratings, Inc. for the university’s strong financial profile.

• Researchers received a record level of funding from federal, state, and private sources in 2019, bringing in $233.6 million to the university to support investigations into areas such as health sciences, high energy physics, and marine biology.

• FSU is among the top producers of patented technologies, ranking No. 69 worldwide for the number of patents granted in 2018.

Tallahassee Welcomes U

Tallahassee’s business ecosystem welcomes the research, knowledge, and perspective of its college and university academics, so much so that the city hosts Tallahassee Welcomes U, a networking social that gives new faculty from all area institutions the chance to meet and connect with different community leaders. “As far as I know, we are the only community in the country to host a welcome reception for new faculty,” says Lester Hutt, director of communications and outreach at Diverse Computing. “For someone who has just moved to Tallahassee, making those first community connections can be incredibly valuable.”

Florida A&M: A Top HBCU

Florida A&M University (FAMU) ranks seventh in the nation among historically black colleges and universities in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges 2020 guidebook. It’s the second year that the university has ranked in the top 10, in part because of ongoing efforts to increase graduation rates, expand retention programs, and provide new resources on campus.

“These rankings are an indication of the excellent work of faculty, staff, administrators, and most importantly, our students themselves,” says Larry Robinson, president. “We continue to implement innovative and time-proven strategies to ensure the success of our students in every aspect of their lives.”

FAMU is home to several esteemed programs in pharmaceutical sciences, public health, physical therapy, engineering, physics, sociology, business, history, and public administration.

FAMU’s College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences associate professor of pharmaceutics Edward Agyare, Ph.D., was featured in National MagLab’s Fields magazine for his research on evaluating a method of verifying the effectiveness of pancreatic cancer drugs.

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