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2010 U.S. News & World Report America's Best Colleges Abilene Christian University was named one of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News and World Report in its 2011 edition. It also is the No. 1 “Up and Coming” university in the West Region, a designated it received in 2009 as well. ACU ranked 19th in the category of Master’s Universities – West, up one place from 2010. For the second consecutive year, ACU was named second in the Master's Universities – West category of A Strong Commitment to Teaching, highlighting institutions with "an unusual commitment to undergraduate teaching." In the th Great Schools, Great Prices category, ACU was listed 12 among the Master's Universities – West for the third straight year. America's Best Colleges - Forbes Magazine For the second straight year, ACU is one of "America's Best Colleges" as determined by Forbes Magazine in a rankings list published in August 2010. Forbes joined with the Center for College Affordability and Productivity to chose 610 schools based on "the quality of the education they provide, the experience of the students and how much they achieve." ACU was ranked No. 484, placing the university in the top seven percent of the 6,600 accredited postsecondary institutions eligible for consideration. ACU and Pepperdine were the only two universities on the list affiliated with Churches of Christ. America's 100 Best College Buys For the 12th consecutive year, ACU is included in America's 100 Best College Buys. To be included in the book, universities must provide "the highest quality in education at the lowest cost." ACU is the only private university in Texas named to the list. ACUTA Institutional Excellence Award ACU's mobile-learning initiative has been recognized as an innovative approach to education through technology. ACUTA, the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education, gave ACU its most prestigious honor, the award for Institutional Excellence in Information Communications Technology. This distinction, given annually to three universities, is awarded for innovative and exemplary endeavors, products or services in the field of higher education technology. Alcatel-Lucent Dynamic Enterprise Award ACU was recently honored with one of Alcatel-Lucent’s first annual Dynamic Enterprise Awards. The Fortune 500 company’s Web site states that the four winning institutions "demonstrate how fully leveraging the interconnection of networks, people, process and knowledge using IP technology provides unique competitive advantages." ACU was honored along with the Siam Commercial Bank of Thailand; Fluor Limited, part of the UK’s National Roads