Florida ranks among the nation’s top 10 states in Education Week’s 2009 Quality Counts: Portrait of a Population,a report that tracks state policies and performance across key areas of education. Florida ranks4^th in the nation in the Teaching Profession and 7^th in student achievement. (Education Week, Jan 2009)

Six Florida universities, including University of Florida at No. 2, and New College of Florida at No. 8 place, were named to Kiplinger’s Best Values in Public Colleges. These rankings recognize schools with top-flight academics and affordable costs. (Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, January 2009)

Florida ranks No.1 in the nation in online education. The Center for Digital Education evaluated each state’s vision, policies, programs and strategies to transform their academic environments to meet student need, and declared Florida the national leader. (Center for Digital Education, Oct 2008)

Eight of Florida’s college and universities were ranked among the best by the U.S. News & World Report’s 2009 edition of “America’s Best Colleges.” University of Florida and Florida State University earned #17 and #50 ranks, respectively, in the Top Public Schools: National Universities list, while the University of Miami ranked #51 in the overall Best National Universities list. Among private colleges, Rollins College ranked #1 among 121 Southern master's-level universities, New College of Florida became the nation’s #5 ranked Public Liberal Arts College, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University retained its top ranking for the ninth year in a row in "Best aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering programs" in the U.S. (U.S. News & World Report, Aug 2008)

The University of South Florida's graduate entrepreneurship program was ranked the 5th best program in the country in the 2008 ranking from The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine. USF is also the youngest program to be included in the 2008 ranking. (Entrepreneur Magazine, Oct 2008)

The University of Central Florida is among the top 10 research universities in the nation, according to the 2008 University Patent Scorecard published by Intellectual Property Today. The Patent Scorecard ranks technology innovations gained from patents. UCF jumped from 21st to eighth to surpass Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin in the top 10. UCF also ranked third in the industry impact category, which measures the role a university’s patents play in serving as a foundation for other patents and technologies. (Intellectual Property Today, Sep 2008)

Florida leads the nation with the most Newsweek Top 100 U.S. High Schools, accounting for nearly 1 out of every 5 of the top ranked schools as measured by the magazine’s Challenge Index. (Newsweek, May 2008)

Six Florida universities, including two among the Top 5, were named to Kiplinger’s Best Values in Public Colleges. These rankings recognize schools with top-flight academics and affordable costs. (Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, January 2008)

Florida ranks among the top 15 states in Education Week’s annual Quality Counts: Tapping into Teaching report, ranking 4^th in the nation in efforts to improve teaching and 7^th in student achievement. Florida also ranks among the top 15 states in terms of the alignment of its K-12 education system with early learning, higher learning, and the workplace, and its academic standards and accountability policies. (Education Week, January 2008)

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