If you are overweight, losing weight can help lower your LDL (bad) cholesterol. This is especially important for people with metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a group of risk factors that includes high triglyceride levels, low HDL (good) cholesterol levels, and being overweight with a large waist measurement (more than 40 inches for men and more than 35 inches for women).
Purdue Engineering National Rankings â 2016. The College of Engineering moved up in the rankings to #6, tied with Georgia Tech, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Michigan. ABE has now been ranked #1 for the seventh consecutive year. Graduate Program National Rankings.
Pennsylvania State University--World Campus is ranked No. 8 in Best Online Bachelor's Programs. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence. Read more about how we rank schools. #8 (tie) in Best Online Bachelor's Programs.