MSU Ranks Among Forbes’ Magazine’s Top Colleges

WKMS | By Dave Shinall

Published August 8, 2012 at 9:02 AM CDT

The latest Forbes’ Magazine listing of America’s Top 100 Colleges ranks Murray State University third among Kentucky colleges and universities and in the top eight percent nationally. Eleven Kentucky colleges and universities made the list. Of those, only the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville came in ahead of MSU. The Forbes ranking is based on quality of teaching, graduation rates, student debt and career prospects for students.

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Dave is a retired Army tank platoon sergeant. During Desert Storm, he helped overrun a Republican Guard bunker complex in Iraq's Euphrates Valley. In the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, he commanded a mountaintop UN Preventive Deployment Force observation post on the Macedonian frontier with Serbia. In Bavaria, he served as news director at the American Forces Network radio station in Wurzburg, on special duty assignment from December 1981 to March 1984. He's a 2003 magna cum laude graduate of Western Kentucky University.

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