Wagner College is listed, once again, in the Princeton Review’s annual “Best 376 Colleges” guide, which was released Aug. 1.
Wagner College also appeared on several of the specialized Top 20 lists compiled by the Princeton Review, including “Best College Theater” and “Class Discussions are Encouraged,” as well as the roster of “Great Schools for Education Majors.”
This is the seventh year in a row that 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 Muhlenberg College, Drew University, Bennington College, and Yale University.
This is the first time Wagner College has appeared on the “Class Discussions are Encouraged” list, where we ranked Number 4 among the Top 20 schools, behind Sarah Lawrence College, the New School’s Eugene Lang College, and Champlain College.
Wagner College also appears on the 2012 “Great Schools for Education Majors” roster for fifth year in a row. In fact, we have been featured on the list ever since it first appeared in the 2008 issue of the Princeton Review’s Best Colleges guide.
Only about 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year 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, based on the Princeton Review’s surveys of students attending the colleges.
“We commend Wagner College for outstanding academics, which are the primary criteria for our selection of schools for the book,” says Robert Franek, Princeton Review's publisher and author of “The Best 376 Colleges.” “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.”
“It is always gratifying to have our work recognized by independent organizations,” said Wagner President Richard Guarasci. “This is once again a tribute to the hard work of our faculty, students, and the staff members who support them.”
In its profile on Wagner, the Princeton Review quotes extensively from students surveyed for the book. Wagner students describe the college as “a small, lively, personal community tucked away on Grymes Hill” of Staten Island, with “stunning views of the Atlantic and of Manhattan and the heart of New York City” just a “ferry ride away.”
The Princeton Review does not rank the colleges in the book academically or from 1 to 376 in any category. Instead, it reports in the book 62 ranking lists of “Top 20” colleges in various categories. The lists are entirely based on the Princeton Review's survey of 122,000 students (about 325 per campus, on average) attending the colleges in the book, and not on the Princeton Review's opinion of the schools. The 80-question survey asks students to rate their own schools on several topics and report on their campus experiences at them. Topics range from assessments of their professors to opinions about their financial aid and campus food.
Wagner listed among best U.S. colleges
August 3, 2011
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