{"id":27618,"date":"2017-03-22T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=27618"},"modified":"2017-03-22T12:04:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:04:09","slug":"website-ranks-bemidji-state-online-social-work-program-among-nations-35-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/22\/website-ranks-bemidji-state-online-social-work-program-among-nations-35-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Website Ranks Bemidji State Online Social Work Program Among Nation&#8217;s 35 Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The website Community for Accredited Online Schools has ranked Bemidji State University&rsquo;s online bachelor&rsquo;s degree program in social work among the best in the country.<\/p>\n<p>BSU was ranked 31st on the site&rsquo;s &ldquo;2017 Best Online Bachelor&rsquo;s Degrees in Social Work&rdquo; list, which included 35 programs from across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The site&rsquo;s rankings were based on several factors it considers &ldquo;critical to a student&rsquo;s experience,&rdquo; including student-teacher ratio, clinical experience offerings, and a school&rsquo;s graduation rate and tuition cost.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Students can use these rankings as guidelines as they investigate a school&rsquo;s curriculum, faculty expertise and how courses match their career goals,&rdquo; the site said.<\/p>\n<h5>Ranking Methodology<\/h5>\n<p>The Community for Accredited Online Schools only considers schools that are accredited at the institutional level, are private non-profit or public school, and a minimum of one degree available online. They use tuition cost, financial aid availability, student-teacher ratios, graduation rates, placement and support service offerings, and a few other factors to rank schools.<\/p>\n<h5>Contacts<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Lynn Johnson, director, Center for Extended Learning; 218-755-2068, <a href=\"mailto:ljohnson@bemidjistate.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ljohnson@bemidjistate.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Links<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accreditedschoolsonline.org\/online-degrees\/best-online-bachelors-in-social-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Community for Accredited Online Schools&rsquo; &ldquo;2017 Best Online Bachelor&rsquo;s Degrees in Social Work&rdquo;<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MN-State-logo-100x175.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24884 alignright img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MN-State-logo-100x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"175\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MN-State-logo-100x175-e1539967051802.jpg\"><\/a>Bemidji State University<\/b>, located in northern Minnesota&rsquo;s lake district, occupies a wooded campus along the shore of Lake Bemidji. A member of the colleges and universities of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnscu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Minnesota State<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>, Bemidji State offers more than 80 undergraduate majors and 11 graduate degrees encompassing arts, sciences and select professional programs. Bemidji State has an enrollment of more than 5,100 students and a faculty and staff of more than 550. University signature themes include environmental stewardship, civic engagement and global and multi-cultural understanding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smaller\" style=\"text-align: right\">\n2017-B-L-079<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The website Community for Accredited Online Schools has ranked Bemidji State University&#8217;s online bachelor&#8217;s degree program in social work among the best in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":27620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[872,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27621,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27618\/revisions\/27621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}