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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:14:59 -0600
From: "Gutierrez, Barbara L CIV USAF USAFA USAFA/CMA"
Subject: FW:
Forbes Ranks Air Force Academy #11 In Nation
From Public Affairs:
//SIGNED//
BARBARA GUTIERREZ
Parents' Liaison
U.S. Air Force Academy, CO
(719) 333-3828 Toll free 877-268-3383

News Release #165
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo., -- Forbes Magazine has ranked the
Air Force Academy #11 in the nation on its 2010 America's Best Colleges List.

Forbes released its third annual America's Best Colleges rankings recently. The rankings are compiled by Forbes and the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, which evaluated more than 600 undergraduate programs.

According to Forbes, the rankings are based on a several weighted factors, which include: graduate surveys, average salaries of graduates, student evaluations of classes, number of alumni listed as corporate officers on Forbes listing, number of alumni listed in Who's Who in America, amount of student debt at graduation, freshman-to-sophomore retention rates, and the percentage of students who graduate in four years.

These rankings put service academies in the same tier as Ivy League
colleges. The Air Force Academy placed at #16 in 2008, #7 in 2009 and #11 this year. For the 2010 rankings, the United States Military Academy (West Point) ranked #4 on the list, while the U.S. Naval Academy came in at #29, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy ranked #105 and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy earned the #165 ranking.

Last week's Forbes ranking follows the national education rankings by The Princeton Review. In the Princeton Review's The Best 373 Colleges text, released Aug. 2, the Air Force Academy ranks #1 in the nation in professor availability. The Princeton Review ranked the Air Force Academy number one in professor availability in its 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 Best Colleges editions.

At the U.S. Air Force Academy, the student-faculty ratio is 9:1, average
class size is 20, 100 percent of the faculty is full-time and zero classes
are taught by teaching assistants.

For more information on the Forbes rankings, which were released
last week, visit: http://www.forbes.com/education/ and for more information on the Princeton Review rankings, visit:

http://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings.aspx