HU named to Princeton Review’s ‘Best’ List for 7th time
FOR RELEASE: Wednesday, August 20, 2014
HUNTINGTON, Ind. For the seventh year in a row, The Princeton Review has named Huntington University one of the best colleges in the Midwest. The nationally-known education services company recommends the school as one of 159 institutions in 12 Midwestern states on its "Best in the Midwest" list for 2015. "We developed our 'Best Colleges: Region by Region' lists to offer guidance for the growing number of students and parents now seeking colleges closer to home," said Robert Franek, Princeton Review's senior VP/publisher. "We selected Huntington University and the other terrific institutions on our 'regional best' lists primarily for their excellent academic offerings."
The Princeton Review editors narrowed their choices based on institutional data the company collected directly from several hundred colleges in each region, staff visits to schools over the years, and the opinions college counselors and advisors whose recommendations the Company invites.
Franek added, "Our selections also take into account what students at the schools report to us about their experiences at them on our 80-question student survey for this project. We ask every question that a prospective applicant might want to ask on a campus visit. Only schools that permit us to independently survey their students are eligible to be considered for our regional 'best' lists."
For this project, The Princeton Review asks students attending the schools to rate their own schools on several issues from the accessibility of their professors to the quality of their science lab facilities and answer questions about themselves, their fellow students, and their campus life. Comments from surveyed students are quoted in the school profiles on The Princeton Review site. Student comments in the profile on Huntington University indicate that "people here are very receptive to new people. It is easy to be accepted by just being yourself." The students seem "so down-to-earth and accepting."
The 159 colleges that The Princeton Review chose for its "Best in the Midwest" 2015 list are located in twelve states: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The Princeton Review also designated 226 colleges in the Northeast, 124 in the West, and 139 in the Southeast as best in their locales on the company's "2015 Best Colleges: Region by Region" lists. Collectively, the 648 colleges named "regional best(s)" constitute about 25% of the nation's 2,500 four-year colleges.
The Princeton Review (www.PrincetonReview.com) is an education services company known for its test-prep courses, tutoring, books, and other student resources. The company is not affiliated with Princeton University, and it is not a magazine.
