TCNJ News
For Immediate Release
August 3, 2010
TCNJ featured in The Princeton Review’s The Best 373 Colleges – 2011 Edition;
Also named one of the best Northeastern colleges
EWING, NJ … The College of New Jersey is one of the country's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the school in the new 2011 edition of its annual college guide, The Best 373 Colleges (Random House / Princeton Review, August 3, 2010, $22.99).
Only about 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges and two Canadian colleges are profiled in the book, which is The Princeton Review's flagship college guide. It includes detailed profiles of the colleges with rating scores for all schools in eight categories, plus ranking lists of top 20 schools in 62 categories based on The Princeton Review's surveys of students attending the colleges.
In addition to its place on the list of the best 373 colleges, TCNJ also finds a place on the 218 colleges The Princeton Review chose for its "Best Northeastern Colleges" book and website list. These colleges are located in eleven states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont, and the District of Columbia. The Princeton Review also designated 152 colleges in the Midwest, 120 in the West, and 133 in the Southeast as best in their locales on the company’s "2011 Best Colleges: Region by Region" lists. Collectively, the 623 colleges named "regional best(s)" constitute about 25% of the nation's 2,500 four-year colleges.
Says Robert Franek, Princeton Review's Senior VP / Publishing and author of the book, "We commend TCNJ for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our selection of schools for the book. Our choices are based on institutional data we collect about schools, our visits to 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. We also work to keep a wide representation of colleges in the book by region, size, selectivity and character."
In its profile on TCNJ, The Princeton Review praises the school for its "highly-respected degree for a bargain-basement price" and quotes extensively from TCNJ students the company surveyed for the book. Among their comments about their campus experiences there: "Many of my friends had well above 1300 SAT scores and got into very prestigious schools such as Georgetown, NYU, Columbia, and Villanova, but chose TCNJ because of its unbeatable cost."
The Princeton Review does not rank the colleges in the book academically or from 1 to 373 in any category.
In a "Survey Says " sidebar in the book's profile on TCNJ, The Princeton Review lists topics that TCNJ students surveyed for the book were in most agreement about in their answers to survey questions. The list includes: "great library," "friendly, happy students," and "the school is well-run."
The schools in The Best 373 Colleges also have ratings that The Princeton Review tallies based on institutional data collected from the schools during the 2009-10 academic year and/or its student survey for the book. The ratings are scores on a scale of 60 to 99 and they appear in each school profile in eight categories including: Academics, Admissions Selectivity, Financial Aid, Fire Safety, and Green, a measure of school's commitment to environmentally-related policies, practices and education. Among the ratings in TCNJ’s profile are scores of 94 for Quality of Life, 94 for Fire Safety and 88 for its Green Rating.
The Princeton Review explains the basis for each rating score in the book and at www.princetonreview.com/college/college-ratings.aspx
