[ATrain]

Sound bite gaffes aside, this is an awesome move for Liberty. Congratulations to all the students, faculty, staff and administrative leader - yes, this includes Jerry Jr. - on moving Liberty onward and upward:

http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/l ... 35ec8.html

Liberty University has joined the ranks of U.S. doctoral universities, according to a widely-used classification system within higher education.

The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education updates every five years, and published its latest listings last week.

To be considered a doctoral university in the latest update, a school must have granted at least 20 research and scholarship doctoral degrees to individual students during the 2013-14 school year.

The classification has three subcategories at the doctoral level based on an assessment of the amount of research performed at the school. Liberty gained entrance with an R3 designation, which denotes moderate research activity. R1 represents the highest research activity.

[olldflame]

If I am reading that correctly, VT is not a doctoral university.

[adam42381]

If I am reading that correctly, VT is not a doctoral university.

Looks like they left them out of the article.

http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/l ... _id=233921