STATEN ISLAND, N.Y., Aug. 3, 2010 — Wagner College is listed, once again, in the Princeton Review’s annual “Best 373 Colleges” guide, which was released yesterday.
And, for the sixth year in a row, the Wagner College Theater has been ranked among the top collegiate stage programs in the nation. Wagner is No. 5 on this year’s Best College Theaters list, behind Drew University, Emerson College, Yale University and Bennington College.
For this year’s Best Colleges guide, the Princeton Review surveyed 122,000 students (average 325 per campus) at the 373 schools profiled in the book. The 80-question survey asked students about their school’s academics, administration, campus life, student body, and themselves.
A college’s appearance on one of the guide’s “Best Of” lists is attributable to “a high consensus among its surveyed students about the subject,” according to the Review.
Wagner College is also listed in the Princeton Review’s list of Best Northeastern Colleges for 2011.
Says Robert Franek, Princeton Review’s senior vice president for publishing, “We’re pleased to recommend Wagner College to readers of our book as one of the best schools to earn their undergrad degree. We chose it and the other terrific institutions we name as ‘regional best’ colleges mainly for their excellent academic programs. From several hundred schools in each region, we winnowed our list based on institutional data we collected directly from the schools, our visits to schools over the years, and the opinions of our staff, plus college counselors and advisers whose recommendations we invite. We also take into account what students at the schools reported to us about their campus experiences on our 80-question student survey for this project. Only schools that permit us to independently survey their students are eligible to be considered for our regional ‘best’ lists.”
The 218 colleges the Princeton Review chose for the “Best Northeastern Colleges” list are located in the District of Columbia and 11 states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. 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 bests” constitute about 25% of the nation’s 2,500 four-year colleges.
Wagner Theater ranked #5 in U.S.
August 3, 2010
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