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CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) Valley City State University was ranked No. 2 among Top Public Regional Colleges in the Midwest in the 2015 edition of U.S. News Best Colleges. VCSU held the same position in the 2014 U.S. News rankings.

For six consecutive years, VCSU has been ranked either first or second in its category and has been North Dakota’s highest-rated Public Regional College. For 17 consecutive years VCSU has been recognized by U.S. News as a “Best College.”

“The U.S News ranking is an affirmation of the quality education experience offered at Valley City State,” said Margaret Dahlberg, VCSU interim president. “This recognition is a reflection of the good work that our faculty and staff—and our students—do every day in creating a successful teaching and learning environment.”

In the U.S. News rankings, accredited U.S. colleges and universities are grouped according to their mission and, for some categories, by location. Then the institutions are compared based on data related to academic excellence from up to 16 areas.

VCSU fared well on the criteria, particularly in the categories of average class size, peer assessment, student-faculty ratio, alumni giving, and graduation rate exceeding prediction. 

The “Regional Colleges in the Midwest” category includes 95 colleges and universities, with 13 public institutions, across 12 states.

The rankings are available online at www.usnews.com/colleges and will be published in the 2015 edition of the U.S. News Best Colleges guidebook.