Wesleyan College offers students an outstanding undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The New York-based education services company features the college in the new 2012 edition of its annual book, The Best 376 Colleges, as a Best Southeastern College and gives high ratings for academics and classroom experience.
Wesleyan Ranks High in Princeton Review’s The Best 376 Colleges
• Ranked 13th in the nation for "Class Discussion Encouraged"
• Ranked 3rd on "Stone Cold Sober Schools” list
• Ranked 6th for low beer usage in "Got Milk?"
• Ranked 9th for low hard liquor usage reported in "Scotch & Soda, Hold the Scotch"
Only about 15% of the four-year colleges in the United States were chosen for the book. It has two-page profiles of the schools and student survey-based ranking lists of top 20 colleges in more than 62 categories. According to Princeton Review Vice President Robert Franek, "We commend Wesleyan College 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."
Complementing the student survey-based ranking lists and profiles, the editors of The Best 376 Colleges offer school ratings in several categories. The ratings are numerical scores on a scale of 60 to 99 based largely on school-reported data collected during the 2010-11 academic year. The Princeton Review gave Wesleyan College an Academic Rating of 90, Quality of Life Rating of 85, Financial Aid Rating of 86, Admissions Selectivity Rating of 85, and a Green Rating of 78. The College’s profile quotes extensively from Wesleyan students surveyed for the book. Among their candid comments: "Wesleyan students come from all kinds of backgrounds, countries, ethnic groups, and religions;" “students are strong-willed [and] outspoken and passionately love the work they do;" “students maintain a balance between their academics, extracurricular activities, and community service;" "you get one-on-one time with your professors;" “lab facilities are great;” “very little drug use;” and "most classes are done discussion-style, with many diverse viewpoints presented."
The ranking lists in the 2012 edition of The Best 376 Colleges are based on Princeton Review's survey of 122,000 students (about 325 per campus on average) attending the colleges in the book. A college's appearance on these lists is attributable to a high consensus among its surveyed students about the subject. The 80-question survey asked students to rate their schools on several topics and report on their campus experiences. Ranking lists report the top 20 schools in categories that range from best professors, administration, and campus food to lists based on student body political leanings, race/class relations, sports interests, and other aspects of campus life. Among the nation’s best colleges, Wesleyan ranked in the Top 10 for four categories and in the Top 20 in one more category.
In addition to its inclusion in The Best 376 Colleges, Wesleyan is featured in Princeton Review’s new 2010-2011 Green Colleges Guide. Princeton Review, along with the editors of USA TODAY, also selected Wesleyan College as the nation’s 9th BEST VALUE PRIVATE COLLEGE for 2011.
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