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September 12, 2008 Wright State among Best National Universities, Best in the Midwest rankings Wright State University, an urban research university, has seen its regional reputation reach a national level with two recent college rankings.Wright State is among the 262 Best National Universities listed in the "America's Best Colleges 2009" rankings by U.S. News and World Reports, and was also designated a "Best in the Midwest" college in The Princeton Review's 2009 college rankings. This is the second year Wright State was awarded the Best in the Midwest designation in the The Princeton Review's special annual issue "Best Colleges: Region by Region." The special issue focuses on 630 of the best colleges in four regions: the Northeast, West, Southeast and Midwest. Academics, quality of life and extracurricular activities were among the categories included in the unbiased and uncensored survey given to students and their parents. In 2007, Wright State offered 109 undergraduate degree programs and 46 graduate and professional programs. It retained nearly three-quarters (71 percent) of its freshmen into their sophomore year, an indicator of student success. Last year Wright State ranked fourth in the nation among small research universities for research productivity, according to the independent Academic Analytics Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index. 
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