NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The Princeton
Review—well-known for its college rankings in dozens of categories
based on how students rate their schools—today released the 2016
editions of its guides to business and law schools, which also
include annual ranking lists uniquely based on student surveys.
"The Best 295 Business Schools" and "The Best 173 Law Schools"
(Penguin Random House / Princeton Review Books, 2016 Editions,
$26.99 and $24.99 respectively) each report lists of top 10
ranking schools in 11 categories.
The Princeton Review tallied its lists based on its surveys of
41,700 students attending schools in the books. The company
surveyed 22,000 students attending the 295 business schools and
19,700 students attending the 173 law schools. The 80-question
survey asked students to rate their schools on several topics and
report on their experiences at them. Some ranking list tallies also
factored in school-reported data.
Among the ranking list categories in each book and schools
ranked #1 on them:
"Best Career Prospects"
B-school: Stanford University
Law school: University of
Pennsylvania
"Best Professors"
B-school: Indiana
University—Bloomington
Law school: Duke University
"Best Classroom Experience"
B-school: Harvard University
Law school: Stanford University
"Most Competitive Students"
B-school: Acton School of
Business
Law school: Baylor University
"Toughest to Get Into"
(the only ranking list in the books based solely on school-reported
data)
B-school: Stanford University
Law school: Yale University
Other lists in "The Best 295 Business Schools" and #1 schools
on them include:
"Greatest Opportunity for
Women"
Simmons College School
of Management
"Best Green MBA"
University of
Oregon
Other lists in "The Best 173 Law Schools" and #1 schools on
them include:
"Most Conservative Students" – Ave Maria School of
Law
"Most Liberal Students" – Northeastern
University
The guidebooks include other ranking list categories. Among them
are the top 10 schools for "Best Administered," "Most Family
Friendly," and "Greatest Opportunity for Minority Students."
The Princeton Review today posted all of the lists on its
website at
www.princetonreview.com/business-school-rankings/best-business-schools
and
www.princetonreview.com/law-school-rankings/best-law-schools.
At these areas, users can read FAQs about the basis for each
ranking list and access the company's detailed profiles of the
schools.
"The schools we selected for these guides all offer academically
outstanding degrees: we recommend them highly," said Robert Franek, SVP / Publisher, The Princeton
Review. "Their program offerings vary considerably, and we
salute and highlight those distinctions in our profiles. Our
purpose is not to rank schools hierarchically or crown any school
as 'best' overall. Our goal is to provide school
profiles combined with multiple rating scores and ranking lists to
help applicants choose the best law or b-school for them."
The Princeton Review's ranking list tallies factor in data from
its surveys of business and law school students completed at
http://survey.review.com during the 2014-15, 2013-14, and 2012-13
school years. The survey asked students about their school's
academics, student body and campus life, and their career plans. On
average, 113 students at each law school and 74 students at each
b-school were surveyed for the lists in the books' 2016 editions.
All institutional data reported in these editions was collected in
2014-15.
The books' school profiles include admission, academics,
financial aid, campus life, and career / employment information.
The profiles also include school ratings (scores from 60 to 99) in
five categories based primarily on institutional data. Among them
are rating scores for "Admissions Selectivity" and Career"
statistics (which factors in data on graduates' starting salaries
and employment).
Today, The Princeton Review also published "The Best 167 Medical
Schools" 2016 Edition ($24.99).
It does not have ranking lists. The Princeton Review is not
affiliated with Princeton
University.
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.
About Penguin Random House / Princeton Review Books
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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.
Random House has been the exclusive trade book publisher of
Princeton Review Books since 1986. A part of the Random House
Children's Books division, The Princeton Review Books line
(www.randomhouse.com/princetonreview) numbers more than 150 titles
and includes guides to major standardized tests, colleges and
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