slides: Princeton Review’s 2014 Rankings: All New England Colleges Ranked

Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Tracey Minkin, GoLocalWorcester Features Editor

The results are in from Princeton Review's 2014 rankings, and GoLocalWorcester has every New England college that made the rankings, from #1 LGBT-Friendly Emerson College to #15 Least Happy Students at the University of Maine Orono.

These rankings, which address the college experience in 60 rankings ranging from food and dorms to teaching, culture, and political activism, come from the Princeton Review survey that asked 126,000 students at 378 top colleges to rate their schools on dozens of topics and report on their campus experiences. For more on how Princeton Review derives the rankings, go here.

The Princeton Review names the top 20 colleges in each of the 60 other categories in the 2014 edition of its book, "The Best 378 Colleges" (Random House / Princeton Review Books, $23.99) on sale beginning today, and on www.princetonreview.com where the rankings posted on Monday, August 5th.

"Every college in our book offers outstanding academics," says Robert Franek, the guide's author and Princeton Review Senior VP / Publisher. "We don't rank them academically, 1 to 378, because they differ importantly in their academics, services, and campus culture. That variety is their strength. Our purpose is not to crown one college 'best' overall, but to give applicants the resources and campus feedback they need to choose, get into, pay for, and graduate with a job from the college that's best for them."

To see which New England colleges were named in each of Princeton Review's 60 categories, see below. To read more about what each of these lists mean, go here.