{"id":660,"date":"2014-08-21T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T23:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/?p=660"},"modified":"2015-05-21T09:59:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T14:59:34","slug":"bloomington-normal-among-50-best-college-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2014\/08\/21\/bloomington-normal-among-50-best-college-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomington-Normal Among 50 Best College Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The website &#8220;Best College Reviews&#8221; has chosen Bloomington-Normal to its <em>50 Best College Towns. \u00a0<\/em>Bloomington-Normal was placed 38th, between Athens, GA and Oxford, MS. \u00a0The things\u00a0considered in the choices were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Livability<\/li>\n<li>Student-to-resident ratio<\/li>\n<li>Cultural Offerings<\/li>\n<li>School Presence<\/li>\n<li>Large Employers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The towns at the top of the\u00a0list have all of the above, while towns featuring only a handful of the\u00a0criteria are ranked lower. The website\u00a0recognized that everyone values different things in their college towns, but in an effort to establish diversity of views in the ranking of college towns, they\u00a0decided on the above criteria as a valuable way to highlight the towns that truly are a great part of our college experience, before, during, and after school.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn more about the other cities on the list, go to\u00a0<a title=\"Top College Towns\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bestcollegereviews.org\/50-best-college-towns-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bestcollegereviews.org\/50-best-college-towns-america\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The website &#8220;Best College Reviews&#8221; has chosen Bloomington-Normal to its 50 Best College Towns. \u00a0Bloomington-Normal was placed 38th, between Athens, GA and Oxford, MS. \u00a0The things\u00a0considered in the choices were: Livability Student-to-resident ratio Cultural Offerings School Presence Large Employers The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2014\/08\/21\/bloomington-normal-among-50-best-college-towns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}