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Author: Jill Elish
(excerpt from Florida State University News)
Florida State University moved up five places in the U.S. News & World Report rankings to No. 38 among all public national universities.
FSU had the greatest gain of all of the Top 50 public universities. The rankings appear in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges 2017” guidebook. Last year, FSU ranked No. 43 among public universities.