{"id":6649,"date":"2018-03-26T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T14:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/provost.ncsu.edu\/?p=6649"},"modified":"2023-03-02T06:32:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T11:32:07","slug":"nc-state-in-top-25-of-peace-corps-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/provost.ncsu.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/nc-state-in-top-25-of-peace-corps-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"NC&#160;State in Top 25 of Peace Corps Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 40 alumni currently volunteering worldwide in the Peace Corps, NC&#160;State is ranked No. 22 in the largest category on the 2018 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list, released this week.<\/p>\n<p>Since the national agency\u2019s inception in 1961, NC&#160;State has produced 556 members of the volunteer corps.<\/p>\n<p>As a state, North Carolina ranks 12<sup>th<\/sup> in Peace Corps volunteers, with 230 volunteers currently serving and 4,505 serving all-time.<\/p>\n<p>The Peace Corps ranks its top volunteer-producing schools annually, according to the size of its student body. NC&#160;State is ranked as a large school, with more than 15,000 undergraduates.<\/p>\n<p>The full top 25 list of large colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p>1\u2013University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison 80<br \/>\n2\u2013University of Washington 74<br \/>\n3\u2013University of Minnesota 72<br \/>\n4\u2013University of North Carolina-CH 70<br \/>\n5\u2013University of Florida 68<br \/>\nT6\u2013Ohio State University 62<br \/>\nT6\u2013University of Virginia 62<br \/>\nT8\u2013University of Michigan 61<br \/>\nT8\u2013University of Texas 61<br \/>\n10\u2013Colorado State University 58<br \/>\n11\u2013University of Colorado \u2013 Boulder 56<br \/>\n12\u2013University of Oregon 55<br \/>\nT13\u2013University of California at Los Angeles 54<br \/>\nT13\u2013Pennsylvania State University 54<br \/>\n15\u2013Arizona State University 50<br \/>\n16\u2013University of Maryland 49<br \/>\n17\u2013Michigan State University 47<br \/>\n18\u2013Western Washington University 46<br \/>\n19\u2013University of South Florida 45<br \/>\n20\u2013University of Arizona 43<br \/>\n21\u2013University of California \u2013 Berkeley 41<br \/>\nT22\u2013University of Missouri \u2013 Columbia 40<br \/>\nT22\u2013North Carolina State University 40<br \/>\n24\u2013James Madison University 39<br \/>\nT25\u2013University of California \u2013 Davis 38<br \/>\nT25\u2013Florida State University 38<\/p>\n<p><em>This post was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ncsu.edu\/2018\/02\/nc-state-in-top-25-of-peace-corps-volunteers\/\">originally published<\/a> in NC&#160;State News.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false,"raw":"With 40 alumni currently volunteering worldwide in the Peace Corps, NC State is ranked No. 22 in the largest category on the 2018 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list, released this week.\r\n\r\nSince the national agency\u2019s inception in 1961, NC State has produced 556 members of the volunteer corps.\r\n\r\nAs a state, North Carolina ranks 12<sup>th<\/sup> in Peace Corps volunteers, with 230 volunteers currently serving and 4,505 serving all-time.\r\n\r\nThe Peace Corps ranks its top volunteer-producing schools annually, according to the size of its student body. NC State is ranked as a large school, with more than 15,000 undergraduates.\r\n\r\nThe full top 25 list of large colleges and universities.\r\n\r\n1\u2013University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison 80\r\n2\u2013University of Washington 74\r\n3\u2013University of Minnesota 72\r\n4\u2013University of North Carolina-CH 70\r\n5\u2013University of Florida 68\r\nT6\u2013Ohio State University 62\r\nT6\u2013University of Virginia 62\r\nT8\u2013University of Michigan 61\r\nT8\u2013University of Texas 61\r\n10\u2013Colorado State University 58\r\n11\u2013University of Colorado \u2013 Boulder 56\r\n12\u2013University of Oregon 55\r\nT13\u2013University of California at Los Angeles 54\r\nT13\u2013Pennsylvania State University 54\r\n15\u2013Arizona State University 50\r\n16\u2013University of Maryland 49\r\n17\u2013Michigan State University 47\r\n18\u2013Western Washington University 46\r\n19\u2013University of South Florida 45\r\n20\u2013University of Arizona 43\r\n21\u2013University of California \u2013 Berkeley 41\r\nT22\u2013University of Missouri \u2013 Columbia 40\r\nT22\u2013North Carolina State University 40\r\n24\u2013James Madison University 39\r\nT25\u2013University of California \u2013 Davis 38\r\nT25\u2013Florida State University 38"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State ranks No. 22 in the Peace Corps&#8217; latest rankings of Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":6650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"ncstate_wire","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,10,18,24,8],"tags":[255],"class_list":["post-6649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-awards-and-honors","category-homepage","category-international","category-students","tag-_from-newswire-collection-45"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/provost.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/provost.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/provost.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provost.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provost.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/provost.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6659,"href":"https:\/\/provost.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions\/6659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provost.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/provost.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provost.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/provost.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}