{"id":4045,"date":"2025-11-20T19:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:34:52","slug":"4045","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/2025\/11\/20\/4045\/","title":{"rendered":"ACU named top 50 nationally in Undergraduate Teaching and Undergraduate Research by U.S. News &amp; World Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only 26 U.S. institutions ranked in the top 50 nationally in both \u201cUndergraduate Research\/Creative Projects\u201d and \u201cUndergraduate Teaching,\u201d including only two Texas universities \u2013\u00a0ACU and Baylor.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, ACU continued to rank among the nation\u2019s best in the \u201cPrograms That Enhance Student Experience\u201d benchmarks focused on the student experience and student success \u2013 placing in six of eight categories this year and in the top 25 in five of them, including Study Abroad. Abilene Christian has been recognized nationally in multiple categories each year since the benchmark\u2019s debut in 2020.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_87566\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87566\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cPrograms That Enhance Student Experience\u201d national rankings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#7 in Service Learning [highest-ranked Texas university]<\/li>\n<li>#11 in First-Year Experiences<\/li>\n<li>#14 in Learning Communities<\/li>\n<li>#18 in Study Abroad [highest-ranked Texas university]<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0#21 in Senior Capstone [highest-ranked Texas university]<\/li>\n<li>#42 in Undergraduate Research\/Creative Projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other categories in which Abilene Christian was honored:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Undergraduate Teaching \u2013 National Universities #45<\/li>\n<li>Best Undergraduate Nursing #254<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4046\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/files\/2025\/11\/USNWR-2025-acu.edu-News-Graphic-1-square.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/files\/2025\/11\/USNWR-2025-acu.edu-News-Graphic-1-square.jpeg 571w, http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/files\/2025\/11\/USNWR-2025-acu.edu-News-Graphic-1-square-480x479.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 571px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 26 U.S. institutions ranked in the top 50 nationally in both \u201cUndergraduate Research\/Creative Projects\u201d and \u201cUndergraduate Teaching,\u201d including only two Texas universities \u2013\u00a0ACU and Baylor. In addition, ACU continued to rank among the nation\u2019s best in the \u201cPrograms That Enhance Student Experience\u201d benchmarks focused on the student experience and student success \u2013 placing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4048,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions\/4048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}