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New College in Sarasota was ranked at No. 11, Florida State University in Tallahassee at No. 19, the University of South Florida\u00a0in Tampa at No. 55, and the University of North Florida in Jacksonville\u00a0at No. 64.<\/p>\n
The highest ranked school nationally is the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u00a0followed by the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Central Florida today was named by Kiplinger\u2019s magazine as one of the nation\u2019s 100 best values among public colleges and universities, the fourth consecutive year UCF has made the list. UCF placed 42nd in the annual compilation, the same ranking as 2012. Kiplinger\u2019s ranks institutions on criteria such as student-faculty ratios, admission rates, on-time graduation rate, sticker…","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":51366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-56162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges"],"yoast_head":"\n
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