The Princeton Review 2015 Rankings

The Princeton Review: 2015 Rankings by: Naomi Nishihara on August 06, 2014 | 4 Comments Comments 5,064 Views August 6, 2014The Princeton Review’s 2015 college rankings are out! Listing the top 20 colleges in 62 categories from best campus food, to best classroom experience, to least happy students The Princeton Review tallied this years scores by surveying 130,000 students at 379 top schools.The winners  include Syracuse University, which is now the No. 1  party school of 2015. George Washington University has the most politically active students, Bard College has the best classroom experience, and Vanderbilt University is home to the happiest students.Unsurprisingly, lists of the most liberal students and the most conservative students did not change significantly from previous years. In fact, the liberal list names eight schools that have made the ranking  every year since 2010, and there were no schools that haven’t ranked at least once recently. For the conservatives, there were two newcomers Wofford College and Gordon College. However, 11 of the listed schools, which is more than half of them, have been there every year.There is some debate over whether these rankings are a positive resource for incoming college students. According to an American Educational Research Association study from earlier this year, rankings like these can significantly affect the application rates to listed schools. For example, the study found that being listed  among  the  Top 20 Schools with the Least Happy Students can result in a 5% decrease in applications the following year quite an impact for a list made from the simple survey question: â€Å"Overall how happy are you?†On the other hand, these rankings address aspects of the university that incoming students won’t find in the pamphlets. No school is going to officially advertise itself as having a student body that likes hard liquor. But with The Princeton Review on hand, i ncoming students can either  seek out or avoid the  University of Iowa and Syracuse University, depending on their attitude toward alcohol.Below is a list of each categorys No. 1 school:The  Princeton Reviews No. 1 Schools.tftable {font-size:12px;color:#333333;width:100%;border-width: 1px;border-color: #729ea5;border-collapse: collapse;} .tftable th {font-size:12px;background-color:#acc8cc;border-width: 1px;padding: 8px;border-style: solid;border-color: #729ea5;text-align:left;} .tftable tr {background-color:#d4e3e5;} .tftable td {font-size:12px;border-width: 1px;padding: 8px;border-style: solid;border-color: #729ea5;} .tftable tr:hover {background-color:#ffffff;}CategoryNo. 1 School  Professors Get High Marks  Reed College  Professors Get Low Marks  New Jersey Institute of Technology  Students Study the Most  Harvey Mudd College  Students Study the Least  Monmouth University (NJ)  Most Accessible Professors  United States Military Academy  Least Accessib le Professors  McGill University  Best College Library  University of Chicago  This is a Library?  Clarkson University  Great Financial Aid  Pomona College  Financial Aid Not So Great  Spelman College  Best Run Colleges  Elon University  Administrators Get Low Marks  United States Merchant Marine Academy  Best Science Lab Facilities  California Institute of Technology  Most Popular Study Abroad Program  Goucher College  Best Classroom Experience  Bard College  Best Career Services  Northeastern University  Best Health Services  Pennsylvania State University University Park  Their Students Love These Colleges  Claremont McKenna College  Lots of Race/Class Interaction  George Mason University  Little Race/Class Interaction  Furman University  Most Religious Students  Brigham Young University (UT)  Least Religious Students  Vassar College  LGBT-Friendly  Stanford University  LGBT-Unfriendly  College of the Ozark s  Town-Gown Relations are Great  Clemson University  Town-Gown Relations are Strained  Trinity College (CT)  College City Gets High Marks  Boston University  College City Gets Low Marks  New Jersey Institute of Technology  Party Schools  Syracuse University  Stone-Cold-Sober Schools  Brigham Young University (UT)  Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians  Skidmore College  Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution  Grove City College  Jock Schools  Auburn University  Most Politically Active Students  The George Washington University  Election? What Election?  Ohio Northern University  Most Liberal Students  Sarah Lawrence College  Most Conservative Students  Texas AM University College Station  Happiest Students  Vanderbilt University  Least Happy Students  Marywood University  Best Campus Food  Virginia Tech  Is It Food?  United States Merchant Marine Academy  Best College Do rm  Washington University in St. Louis  Is that a Dorm?  United States Merchant Marine Academy  Most Beautiful Campus  Colgate University  Least Beautiful Campus  University of Dallas  Best Quality of Life  Bowdoin College  Easiest Campus to Get Around  Wabash College  Everyone Plays Intramural Sports  United States Military Academy  Nobody Plays Intramural Sports  College of the Atlantic  Students Pack the Stadium  University of Kansas  Theres a Game?  Bennington College  Best College Radio  Hofstra University  Best College Newspaper  Yale University  Best College Theater  Wagner College  Best Athletic Facilities  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  Reefer Madness  Skidmore College  Dont Inhale  United States Coast Guard Academy  Lots of Hard Liquor  University of Iowa  Scotch and Soda, Hold the Scotch  Brigham Young University (UT)  Lots of Beer  Pennsylvania State University University Park  Got Milk?  Brigham Young University (UT)  Lots of Greek Life  Transylvania UniversityCreated with the HTML Table GeneratorSource: The Princeton ReviewDONT MISS:  Universities With The Most Conservative Students or  Universities With The Most Liberal Students Page 1 of 11