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Saint Michael's College is featured in the new 2010 edition of The Princeton Review guidebook, The Best 371 Colleges
Saint Michael's ranked 2nd for "Great Town-Gown Relations" and 9th for "Best Quality of Life"
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Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
Saint Michael's College is one of the country's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The Catholic liberal arts college, located in the Burlington area of Vermont, is named, once again, in the new 2010 edition of the popular guidebook, The Best 371 Colleges, published by Random House / Princeton Review, July 28, 2009.
Only about 15 percent of America's 2,500 four-year colleges and two Canadian colleges are profiled in the book, which is The Princeton Review's flagship annual college guide. It includes detailed profiles of the colleges with school rating scores in eight categories, plus ranking lists of top 20 schools in 62 categories based on The Princeton Review's surveys of students attending the colleges.
"We commend Saint Michael's for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our choice of schools for the book," says Robert Franek, Princeton Review's V.P., Publishing and author of The Best 371 Colleges. Inclusion is also based on keeping a wide representation of colleges by region, size, selectivity and character, he said. "We make our choices based on institutional data we gather about schools, feedback from students attending them, and input from our staff who visit 100s of colleges a year. We also consider the opinions and suggestions of our 23-member National College Counselor Advisory Board, and independent college counselors we hear from yearlong."
Saint Michael's student comments
In its profile on Saint Michael's the book cites students who praise the school for its "nice, intimate classroom experience," and who say "The administration and professors at the school are all very open and welcoming to every student." Another student cited says, "professors are really passionate and devoted to the subjects that they teach-and are available outside of class, open to lots of discussion in the classroom, and always willing to help."
The book's 62 ranking lists are based on a survey of 122,000 students (about 325 per campus on average) attending the colleges in the book. The 80-question survey asks students to rate their schools on several topics and report on their campus experiences at them. Topics include professors, administrators, financial aid, and campus food. Other lists are based on student reports about their student body's political leanings, race/class relations, gay community acceptance, and other aspects of campus life.
The Princeton Review does not rank the colleges in the book academically, or from 1 to 371 in any category, nor do the rankings reflect The Princeton Review's opinion of the schools. A college's appearance on a ranking list is entirely the result of a high consensus among its surveyed students about a topic compared with that of students at other schools answering the same survey question(s) on the ranking list topic.
Saint Michael's is on the following ranking lists in the book: Town-Gown Relations are Great, number 2; and Best Quality of Life, number 9.
In a "Survey Says ..." sidebar profile on Saint Michael's, the book lists topics that Saint Michael's students surveyed for the book were in most agreement about in their answers to survey questions. The list includes: "Students are friendly," "Students get along with local community," and "Student publications are popular."
The school profiles in "The Best 371 Colleges" also have ratings that are based largely on institutional data The Princeton Review collected during the 2008-09 academic year. The ratings are scores on a scale of 60 to 99 that are tallied in eight categories. Among them are ratings for Admissions Selectivity, Financial Aid, Fire Safety, and Green, a rating that measures a school's commitment to environmentally related policies, practices and education. Among the ratings in the profile on Saint Michael's are scores of 88 for academic rating, and 89 for Profs interesting rating and 92 for Profs accessible rating.
The Princeton Review posts the school profiles and ranking lists in The Best 371 Colleges on its site www.PrincetonReview.com at which users can read FAQs about the book, the survey, and the criteria for each of the ratings and rankings.
Saint Michael's College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 371 Colleges. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college, Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns and less than two hours from Montreal. As one of only 270 institutions nationwide with a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and Saint Michael's professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last eight years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings.
Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
Saint Michael's College is one of the country's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The Catholic liberal arts college, located in the Burlington area of Vermont, is named, once again, in the new 2010 edition of the popular guidebook, The Best 371 Colleges, published by Random House / Princeton Review, July 28, 2009.Only about 15 percent of America's 2,500 four-year colleges and two Canadian colleges are profiled in the book, which is The Princeton Review's flagship annual college guide. It includes detailed profiles of the colleges with school rating scores in eight categories, plus ranking lists of top 20 schools in 62 categories based on The Princeton Review's surveys of students attending the colleges.
"We commend Saint Michael's for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our choice of schools for the book," says Robert Franek, Princeton Review's V.P., Publishing and author of The Best 371 Colleges. Inclusion is also based on keeping a wide representation of colleges by region, size, selectivity and character, he said. "We make our choices based on institutional data we gather about schools, feedback from students attending them, and input from our staff who visit 100s of colleges a year. We also consider the opinions and suggestions of our 23-member National College Counselor Advisory Board, and independent college counselors we hear from yearlong."
Saint Michael's student comments
In its profile on Saint Michael's the book cites students who praise the school for its "nice, intimate classroom experience," and who say "The administration and professors at the school are all very open and welcoming to every student." Another student cited says, "professors are really passionate and devoted to the subjects that they teach-and are available outside of class, open to lots of discussion in the classroom, and always willing to help."
The book's 62 ranking lists are based on a survey of 122,000 students (about 325 per campus on average) attending the colleges in the book. The 80-question survey asks students to rate their schools on several topics and report on their campus experiences at them. Topics include professors, administrators, financial aid, and campus food. Other lists are based on student reports about their student body's political leanings, race/class relations, gay community acceptance, and other aspects of campus life.
The Princeton Review does not rank the colleges in the book academically, or from 1 to 371 in any category, nor do the rankings reflect The Princeton Review's opinion of the schools. A college's appearance on a ranking list is entirely the result of a high consensus among its surveyed students about a topic compared with that of students at other schools answering the same survey question(s) on the ranking list topic.
Saint Michael's is on the following ranking lists in the book: Town-Gown Relations are Great, number 2; and Best Quality of Life, number 9.
In a "Survey Says ..." sidebar profile on Saint Michael's, the book lists topics that Saint Michael's students surveyed for the book were in most agreement about in their answers to survey questions. The list includes: "Students are friendly," "Students get along with local community," and "Student publications are popular."
The school profiles in "The Best 371 Colleges" also have ratings that are based largely on institutional data The Princeton Review collected during the 2008-09 academic year. The ratings are scores on a scale of 60 to 99 that are tallied in eight categories. Among them are ratings for Admissions Selectivity, Financial Aid, Fire Safety, and Green, a rating that measures a school's commitment to environmentally related policies, practices and education. Among the ratings in the profile on Saint Michael's are scores of 88 for academic rating, and 89 for Profs interesting rating and 92 for Profs accessible rating.
The Princeton Review posts the school profiles and ranking lists in The Best 371 Colleges on its site www.PrincetonReview.com at which users can read FAQs about the book, the survey, and the criteria for each of the ratings and rankings.
Saint Michael's College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 371 Colleges. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college, Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns and less than two hours from Montreal. As one of only 270 institutions nationwide with a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and Saint Michael's professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last eight years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings.
