GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the college in the just-published 2016 edition of its annual flagship college guide, "The Best 380 Colleges." About 15% of America's 2,500 four-year colleges and an additional four outside the country are profiled in the book. SUNY Geneseo has consistently been on the list for a number of years.
The guide also included Geneseo in four other categories: Best Northeastern Colleges; Top 50 Green Colleges; and the Top 200 Colleges That Pay You Back.
“Geneseo continues to be one of the country’s outstanding public liberal arts colleges, and we are always pleased to see this validated in such surveys,” said Meaghan Arena, vice president for enrollment management. “Our strong academic and student life programs have consistently yielded positive reports over the years from our students and colleagues.”
Published annually since 1992, the Princeton Review includes detailed profiles of the colleges plus student survey-based ranking lists of top 20 colleges in 62 categories based on surveys of 130,000 students attending the colleges. The rankings are posted online at www.PrincetonReview.com.
"SUNY Geneseo’s outstanding academics are the chief reason we chose it for this book and we strongly recommend it to applicants," said Robert Franek, Princeton Review’s senior vice president and publisher and author of "The Best 380 Colleges. "We make our selections primarily based on data we collect through our annual surveys of administrators at several hundred four-year colleges. Additionally, we give considerable weight to observations from our school visits, opinions of our staff and our 23-member National College Counselor Advisory Board, and an unparalleled amount of feedback we get from our surveys of student attending these schools. We also keep a wide representation of colleges in the book by region, size, selectivity and character."
The Princeton Review's 62 ranking lists in "The Best 380 Colleges" are based on its survey of 136,000 students (about 358 per campus on average) attending the colleges in the book. The 80-question survey asks students to rate their schools on several topics and report on their campus experiences at them.
The Princeton Review does not rank the colleges in the book academically, or from 1 to 380 in any category, nor do the rankings reflect The Princeton Review's opinion of the schools. Instead, it reports 62 ranking lists of the top 20 colleges in various categories.
The Princeton Review is a New York-based company known for its test preparation, education, and college admission services. It is not affiliated with Princeton University and it is not a magazine.
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