Princeton Review’s 2012 Rankings… How Did the Locals Do?

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Wednesday, August 03, 2011

GoLocalProv Features Team

The Princeton Review has just released its 2012 Best 376 Colleges, looking hard at colleges and universities across the country on everything from student happiness to bad professors. How'd the locals do? We've got all the numbers.

 

Brown University

It's sunshine on College Hill. Brown scored #3 for Happiest Students, #4 for Best College Newspaper and #7 for Best College Radio Station. More kudos to Brown for

#11 for Best College Theater as well as Best Quality of Life. 

 

Providence College

The good news for Providence College was a #11 ranking for Best College Radio Station. The bad news: #7 for Lots of Beer (although students may like this more than parents). PC came in at #9 for Strained Town-Gown Relations and #11 for LGBT Unfriendly. These are issues PC struggled with last year--in fact, PC has a worse LGBT Unfriendly ranking than last year (#18).

University of Rhode Island

Not much good news for Rhody. Apathy continues to plague the school that ranked #13 in the "Election? What Election?" category. URI also took dubious honors for teaching dissatisfaction, with #13 in Professors Got Lowest Marks. The state public university joined PC in being LGBT Unfriendly, ranking #14. Finally, URI also was ranked #20 for "Dorms Like Dungeons."

Other RI Colleges

Bryant University was considered by Princeton Review, but did not make any lists. The rest of RI's colleges--Salve Regina, RIC, RISD, Roger Williams, and Johnson and Wales--were not considered.

Princeton Review bases these categories, 62 in all, on information from more than 122,000 students. To read more about the 2012 rankings, go here.

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