The Air Force Academy is ranked No.1 in the nation by high school guidance counselors and second in the nation by aeronautical and astronautical engineers. Those were just two among many other top-tier rankings the Academy claimed in U.S. News & World Report’s Best College Rankings for 2012. The high school counselor rankings category was added [...] [...]
Colorado has slipped in state rankings for entrepreneurship. The state slipped to 33 in the most recent state entrepreneurship index developed by the Bureau of Business Research at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. In 2008, the state ranked 18th in the nation. “The SEI uses a broad group of indicators rather than just raw [...] [...]
For those looking for another way to determine the health of the national economy, consider the number of U.S. millionaires per capita in 2010. Overall, after two years of declines, the number of millionaires in the U.S. grew by 8 percent in 2010, to about 5.6 million households or about 4.78 percent of total households. [...] [...]
Colorado State University has graduated its share of graduates in every area of study, but it recently attracted national recognition by ranking 15th among all universities and colleges for the number of alumni serving as Peace Corps volunteers. The 2009 rankings were released this month by the organization. Since the early 1960s, 59 CSU alumni have [...] [...]
A new study ranks Penrose-St. Francis Health Services among the top 5 percent of hospitals in the country for its clinical quality. It is the seventh year that the local hospital system earned high rankings from HealthGrades, a private, nonprofit group that ranks hospitals based on information provided to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid [...] [...]