Two Colleges Make Magazine’s Best-Schools List

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Two Northeast Tennessee colleges can count themselves among the South’s best schools according to a U.S. News and World Report study set to be released Monday.
Elizabethton’s Milligan College and Bristol’s King College took the 8th and 22nd places respectively in the magazine’s list of top Southern Baccalaureate Colleges.
“We are delighted to once again receive recognition as a top tier baccalaureate school in the South,” King spokeswoman LeAnn Hughes said in a written statement on the rankings.
U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Colleges 2010” report looks at 1,400 schools across the country. While the report isn’t set to hit the newsstands until Monday, the magazine released the college rankings on its Web site Thursday.
The report grades colleges on 15 criteria and divides them into four categories: baccalaureate colleges, liberal arts colleges, national universities and master’s universities.
The 102 schools in the baccalaureate category focus on undergraduate education but award less than half of their degrees to liberal arts majors. Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, Va., also falls into this category but wasn’t ranked because its score is in the group’s bottom half.
Liberal arts colleges are the same as baccalaureate colleges, except they award more than half of their degrees to liberal arts majors. The report does not divide liberal arts colleges by geographic region.
UVa-Wise in Wise, Va., and Emory &Henry College in Emory, Va., are among the 266 schools in liberal arts category. But neither school was ranked among the top in the study. Like Virginia Intermont, their scores fell into the category’s bottom half.
Johnson City’s East Tennessee State University falls into the report’s national universities category, with schools that offer many different undergraduate courses along with master’s and doctoral degrees. ETSU also was not ranked because its score fell in the category’s bottom half.

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