Florida Universities: The Great News Story that Gets Better

The annual U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings are out and as has often been the case... Florida’s results are a great news story that seemingly continue to improve by the year. Not only is Florida once again the top state for higher education nationally. The performance of many of our universities continued to improve yet again. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Faith freedom Florida. This is the Brian Mud Show. Yeah,
sure enough is and uh well, Brian Mudd and Joel
Malkinn with you talking about Florida's universities, the great news
story that continues to get better. And as we take
a look at the annual US News and World Report
Best Colleges rankings that have come out, digging down a

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little bit further. It's not just the case because when
you're number one, it's just you know, well, we're still
number one. That's great, But that doesn't mean that we
aren't still improving in the state of Florida. When you
drill down, you see that we very much are. So
the performance of many of our universities was on display

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yet again in an improving way. So if you take
a look at the public university rankings, University of Florida
number seven overall last year, number seven this year as well.
Then Florida State University number twenty three last year, number
twenty one this year, so it's a two point rise,
two rank rise. University of South Florida number forty five

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last year, number forty three this year, so another advancement
of two spots. Florida International University number fifty last year,
number forty nine this year. Continue to see the trend s.
Bam you number eighty one last year, number eighty one
this year. Florida Atlantic University number one three last year,

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top one hundred for the first time this year, number
one hundred. That's a three spot game. University of North
Florida number one, twenty six up to one twenty two
of four spots. You take a look at a when
you include all colleges and the privates University of Miami
number three, number sixty three both years, and then you

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get into like the regionals, and we really there. Rollins
College the number one regional university in the South last
year and this year. Stetson University was number eight or
number nine among the regionals last year, number eight now
and Florida Polytechnic University number one regional last year and
this year. So it's kind of like either right at

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the top in terms of outcomes and performance or continuing
to gain while advancing towards the top. So it's a
really impressive story about our university system, which is the
top during top rank get again this year according to
US News and World Report. All right, let's got to
look at Florida Headlines, it'll be twenty twenty eight at

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the earliest before the Treasure Coast gets a bright Line station.
Martin County officials say they'll have to reapply for a
grant after the Federal Railroad Administration notified the county would
not be rewarding one this fiscal year. Bright Line and
Martin have an agreement to build a train station in
downtown Stewart. Governor d Santis yesterday announcing sixty million dollars
in funding for cancer research. The money from the Florida

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Cancer Innovation Fund will focus on how nutrition can prevent
or treat cancer. A pharmaceutical company will pay millions to
Florida for allegedly giving kickbacks. Attorney General James Upmeyer says
Gilly Had Sciences agreeing to pay the state three million
dollars to settle claims it paid providers to improperly promote
the company's HIV AIDS drugs. And Florida's new open carry

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law officially takes effect today. That means anyone is legally
allowed to own a gun is able to carry it
openly in public, though there are, of course restrictions, and
those are your headlines.