Posted on Tuesday, August 3, 2010
¾¨Ó㴫ý is one of the country's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features ¾¨Ó㴫ý in the new 2011 edition of its annual college guide, "The Best 373 Colleges."
¾¨Ó㴫ý is also honored as one of "Best in the Northeast." For the third straight year, ¾¨Ó㴫ý earned special recognition for its relationship with the community in the "Town-Gown Relations are Great" category, and ¾¨Ó㴫ý's student radio station, WWNW 88.9FM, earned recognition as one of the "Best College Radio Stations."
Only about 15% of the America's 2,500 four-year colleges and two Canadian colleges are included in the book.
The guide's editors noted ¾¨Ó㴫ý's increasing selectivity, cozy atmosphere and well-regarded pre-professional programs. Students surveyed described ¾¨Ó㴫ý as a place "where professors are dedicated to helping students on all levels from within the classroom and outside of class, in fact professors are known to call students on the weekends at home to discuss coursework."
Other comments included, "The community is like a family bound together with blue and white pride and a love for the people who are attending and those who have moved on. Once you become a part of the ¾¨Ó㴫ý tradition, it lasts a lifetime."
"We commend ¾¨Ó㴫ý for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our choice of schools for the book," according to Robert Franek, Princeton Review's senior vice president of publishing and author of "The Best 373 Colleges." "Our choices are based on institutional data we collect about schools, our visits to the schools over the years, feedback we gather from students attending the schools, and the opinions of our staff and our 28-member National College Counselor Advisory Board."
The rankings are based on The Princeton Review's survey of 122,000 students. The Princeton Review does not rank the colleges in the book in any single category, nor do the rankings reflect The Princeton Review's opinion of the schools. Visit for additional information.
