{"id":18588,"date":"2016-07-11T13:52:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T13:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=18588"},"modified":"2016-07-11T13:52:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T13:52:35","slug":"baylor-named-a-fiske-best-buy-school-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2016\/07\/baylor-named-a-fiske-best-buy-school-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor named a Fiske \u2018Best Buy\u2019 School &#8212; yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18590\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bestbuy-jul16.jpg\" alt=\"Fiske Best Buy 2017\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bestbuy-jul16.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bestbuy-jul16-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bestbuy-jul16-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2008\/03\/baylor-among-nations-best-private-school-values\/\">at least as long as we&#8217;ve been writing this blog<\/a>, Baylor has been regularly named among the best values\u00a0in\u00a0American college education by publications such as <em>The Fiske Guide to Colleges<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This year is no different; once again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/mediacommunications\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=170831\">Baylor has been named one of Fiske&#8217;s &#8220;Best Buys&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0one of just 47 institutions (public or private, college or university, from the U.S., U.K. and Canada) to be so honored.\u00a0Only three\u00a0other Big 12 schools (and just three\u00a0others in Texas) made the list, which is based on academic rankings, affordable cost and quality of student life on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Of course Baylor&#8217;s not inexpensive. But as a graduate,\u00a0I\u00a0wouldn\u2019t trade my Baylor education and experience for any other in the world, and it\u00a0makes me proud to see such national publications consistently recognizing the benefits of a Baylor education.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Bears!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For\u00a0at least as long as we&#8217;ve been writing this blog, Baylor has been regularly named among the best values\u00a0in\u00a0American college education by publications such as The Fiske Guide to Colleges. This year is no different; once again, Baylor has been named one of Fiske&#8217;s &#8220;Best Buys&#8221;\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0one of just 47 institutions (public or private, college or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}