NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a
Princeton Review survey that asked 136,000 students at 380 top
colleges to rate their schools on dozens of topics and report on
their campus experiences, the school at which students gave their
professors the highest marks was Swarthmore
College (PA).
For "Best Career Services," Clemson
University (SC) captured the top spot. Princeton University (NJ) was #1 for "Great
Financial Aid" while Claremont McKenna
College (CA) for the second consecutive year ranked #1 for
"Their Students Love These Colleges." That list names the colleges
in the book at which students reported the highest satisfaction
with their school.
Lists of the top 20 colleges in these and 58 other categories
will post today at www.princetonreview.com/best380. The Princeton
Review has published these rankings since 1992 in its annual Best
Colleges guide. The new lists appear in the guide's 2016 edition,
"The Best 380 Colleges" (Penguin Random House / Princeton Review
Books, $23.99), that goes on sale
tomorrow.
"Our 62 ranking lists provide students with a way to see the
types of colleges that could help them achieve their future goals
and dreams," said Robert Franek,
Princeton Review's Senior VP-Publisher. "Every college in our book
has outstanding academics. While our purpose is not to crown one
college academically 'best' overall or to rank the schools 1 to 380
on any single topic, our lists provide direct student feedback on
the schools' campus culture, program offerings and cost. Our goal
is to help applicants choose and get into their dream college—the
college best for them."
Other ranking lists in the book and #1 colleges on them:
- "Students Most Engaged in Community Service" (new list this
year) – Brandeis University (MA)
- "Most Beautiful Campus" – Rollins
College (FL)
- "Best College Library" – Yale
University (CT)
- "Best Campus Food" – Bowdoin
College (ME)
- "Best College Dorms" – Bennington
College (VT)
- "Best Health Services" – University of California—Davis
(CA)
- "Happiest Students" – Vanderbilt
University (TN)
- "Most Conservative Students" – Thomas
Aquinas College (CA)
- "Most Liberal Students" – Marlboro
College (VT)
- "LGBTQ-Friendliest" – Emerson
College (MA)
- "Students Pack the Stadiums" – Clemson
University (SC)
- "Party Schools" – University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign (IL)
- "Stone-Cold Sober Schools" – Brigham Young
University (UT)
- "Best Athletic Facilities" – Kenyon
College (OH)
The rankings are based on surveys of 136,000 students (average
358 per campus) at the 380 colleges in the book in 2014-15 and/or
the previous two school years. The survey
(http://survey.review.com) asks students 80 questions about their
school's academics, administration, student body, and themselves.
The ranking methodology
(www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings/how-it-works) uses a
five-point Likert scale to convert qualitative student assessments
into quantitative data for school-to-school comparisons.
The Princeton Review college profiles also include ratings of
the schools in eight categories including: Admissions Selectivity,
Financial Aid, Fire Safety, and Green. The ratings – scores from 60
to 99 – are based primarily on data from the company's surveys of
administrators at the colleges in 2014-15.
"The Best 380 Colleges" is one of 150 Penguin Random House /
Princeton Review books. In addition to its college profiles,
rankings, and ratings, the book includes two lists: "Great Schools
for 20 Popular College Majors" and a list of 200 "Colleges That Pay
You Back." An eBook edition will be available Sept.15, and a new
Princeton Review book, "Colleges That Create Futures: 50 Schools
That Launch Careers By Going Beyond the Classroom" ($14.99), goes on sale Sept. 8.
About The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review is a leading tutoring, test prep and college
admission services company. Every year, it helps millions of
college- and graduate school-bound students achieve their education
and career goals through online and in person courses delivered by
a network of more than 4,000 teachers and tutors, online resources,
and its more than 150 print and digital books published by Penguin
Random House. The Princeton Review is headquartered in Natick, MA and is an operating business of IAC
(NASDAQ: IACI). For more information, visit
www.princetonreview.com. Follow the company on Twitter
@theprincetonrev.
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world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. Its
250 imprints publish more than 70,000 digital and 15,000 print
books annually, with more than 100,000 eBooks available worldwide.
Among them are best-selling and award-winning fiction, non-fiction
and children's books. Random House has been the exclusive trade
book publisher of Princeton Review Books since 1986 when the line
debuted with "Cracking the System: The SAT"-- the only
test-prep guide ever to become a New York
Times best seller. The Princeton Review Books line
(www.randomhouse.com/princetonreview) is now part of the company's
Random House Children's Books division and numbers more than 150
titles. It includes guides to dozens of major standardized tests,
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