Princeton Review rankings out! Parties, Happiness, etc

[hyakku]

<p>Well guys, I’m not gonna post all, but here are some I found interesting and some I think others would find interesting:</p>

<p>Parties:</p>

<p>Party schools:</p>

<p>

1 The University of Texas at Austin<br>
2 Penn State University Park<br>
3 West Virginia University<br>
4 University of Wisconsin-Madison<br>
5 University of Mississippi<br>
6 Ohio University-Athens<br>
7 University of Massachusetts-Amherst<br>
8 Louisiana State University<br>
9 University of Iowa<br>
10 University of California-Santa Barbara<br>
11 University of Florida<br>
12 University of Georgia<br>
13 Indiana University - Bloomington<br>
14 University of New Hampshire<br>
15 Randolph-Macon College<br>
16 University of Tennessee - Knoxville<br>
17 Lehigh University<br>
18 University of Arizona<br>
19 SUNY at Albany<br>
20 University of Maryland-College Park

</p>

<p>Least Party schools:</p>

<p>

1 Brigham Young University (UT) </p>

<p>2 Wheaton College (IL)<br>
3 College of the Ozarks<br>
4 Grove City College<br>
5 United States Naval Academy<br>
6 United States Coast Guard Academy<br>
7 United States Air Force Academy<br>
8 CUNY - Queens College<br>
9 Wellesley College<br>
10 Calvin College<br>
11 Wesleyan College<br>
12 Webb Institute<br>
13 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering<br>
14 Berea College<br>
15 Saint Olaf College<br>
16 Agnes Scott College<br>
17 Bryn Mawr College<br>
18 Spelman College<br>
19 CUNY - Brooklyn College<br>
20 California Institute of Technology

</p>

<p>Reefer Madness (woot :p):</p>

<p>

[QUOTE]

1 Warren Wilson College<br>
2 Bard College<br>
3 Colorado College<br>
4 University of California-Santa Cruz<br>
5 Oberlin College<br>
6 Pitzer College<br>
7 Hampshire College<br>
8 New York University<br>
9 New College of Florida<br>
10 Lehigh University<br>
11 Skidmore College<br>
12 University of Massachusetts-Amherst<br>
13 The University of Texas at Austin<br>
14 Ithaca College<br>
15 Sarah Lawrence College<br>
16 University of Wisconsin-Madison<br>
17 University of California-Santa Barbara<br>
18 Wesleyan University<br>
19 West Virginia University<br>
20 SUNY College at Purchase

[QUOTE]
</p>

<p>NYU surprised me.</p>

<p>Major Frat and Sorority Scene:

1 DePauw University<br>
2 Washington and Lee University<br>
3 Birmingham-Southern College<br>
4 Wofford College<br>
5 Bucknell University<br>
6 University of Tennessee - Knoxville<br>
7 Wabash College<br>
8 The University of Texas at Austin<br>
9 Southern Methodist University
10 Texas Christian University<br>
11 Penn State University Park<br>
12 Fisk University<br>
13 Dartmouth College<br>
14 University of Mississippi<br>
15 Transylvania University<br>
16 University of Wisconsin-Madison<br>
17 Vanderbilt University<br>
18 University of Maryland-College Park<br>
19 Wake Forest University<br>
20 Centre College

</p>

<p>Diverse Student Population:</p>

<p>

1 DePaul University<br>
2 George Mason University<br>
3 Wesleyan College<br>
4 University of Miami<br>
5 CUNY - Hunter College<br>
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
7 Stanford University<br>
8 Temple University<br>
9 Mount Holyoke College<br>
10 Wellesley College<br>
11 Agnes Scott College<br>
12 University of Maryland, Baltimore County<br>
13 Stony Brook University<br>
14 SUNY at Buffalo<br>
15 New Jersey Institute of Technology<br>
16 University of Maryland-College Park<br>
17 University of San Francisco<br>
18 University of South Florida<br>
19 Randolph-Macon Woman’s College<br>
20 Manhattanville College

</p>

<p>Least diverse:</p>

<p>

1 Providence College<br>
2 Grove City College<br>
3 Saint Anselm College<br>
4 Miami University<br>
5 Loyola College in Maryland<br>
6 University of Mary Washington<br>
7 Muhlenberg College<br>
8 Washington and Lee University<br>
9 Fairfield University<br>
10 University of New Hampshire<br>
11 Ohio Northern University<br>
12 Samford University<br>
13 St. Bonaventure University<br>
14 Bucknell University<br>
15 Hampden-Sydney College<br>
16 University of Richmond<br>
17 Lehigh University<br>
18 Wake Forest University<br>
19 Hillsdale College<br>
20 Quinnipiac University

</p>

<p>Most Race/class interaction:

1 Rice University<br>
2 Stanford University<br>
3 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering<br>
4 Wesleyan College<br>
5 Webb Institute<br>
6 St. John’s College (MD)<br>
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
8 Pitzer College<br>
9 Beloit College<br>
10 Eugene Lang College/New School University<br>
11 St. John’s College (NM)<br>
12 Mount Holyoke College<br>
13 Whitman College<br>
14 The University of Tulsa<br>
15 McGill University<br>
16 Macalester College<br>
17 United States Military Academy<br>
18 Randolph-Macon Woman’s College<br>
19 Yale University<br>
20 Hendrix College

</p>

<p>Least Race/Class interaction:</p>

<p>

1 Miami University<br>
2 University of New Hampshire<br>
3 Washington and Lee University<br>
4 Trinity College (CT)<br>
5 Vanderbilt University<br>
6 Duke University<br>
7 Wake Forest University<br>
8 Southern Methodist University<br>
9 University of Richmond<br>
10 Duquesne University<br>
11 Texas Christian University<br>
12 Rollins College<br>
13 University of Denver<br>
14 University of California-San Diego<br>
15 Lafayette College<br>
16 College of the Holy Cross<br>
17 Hofstra University<br>
18 Syracuse University<br>
19 Fairfield University<br>
20 SUNY at Binghamton

</p>

<p>Happiest students:</p>

<p>

1 Brown University<br>
2 Princeton University<br>
3 Whitman College<br>
4 Clemson University<br>
5 Stanford University<br>
6 The College of New Jersey<br>
7 Tufts University<br>
8 The University of Tulsa<br>
9 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering<br>
10 Yale University<br>
11 St. Mary’s College of Maryland<br>
12 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill<br>
13 Amherst College<br>
14 Dartmouth College<br>
15 California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo<br>
16 Haverford College<br>
17 Brigham Young University (UT)<br>
18 Claremont McKenna College<br>
19 William Jewell College<br>
20 Southern Methodist University

</p>

<p>LEAST happy:</p>

<p>

1 United States Merchant Marine Academy<br>
2 New Jersey Institute of Technology<br>
3 United States Coast Guard Academy<br>
4 Stony Brook University<br>
5 Clarkson University<br>
6 University of Hawaii-Manoa<br>
7 St. John’s University<br>
8 Illinois Institute of Technology<br>
9 Fisk University<br>
10 Hofstra University<br>
11 Drexel University<br>
12 University of California-Riverside<br>
13 SUNY at Albany<br>
14 George Mason University<br>
15 SUNY College at Purchase<br>
16 Hampton University
17 Stevens Institute of Technology<br>
18 Case Western Reserve University<br>
19 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick/Piscataway Campus<br>
20 United States Air Force Academy

</p>

<p>Dorms Like Palaces:</p>

<p>

1 Smith College<br>
2 Bryn Mawr College<br>
3 Loyola College in Maryland<br>
4 Pepperdine University<br>
5 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering<br>
6 Pomona College<br>
7 Scripps College
8 Agnes Scott College<br>
9 Mount Holyoke College<br>
10 Wellesley College<br>
11 Claremont McKenna College<br>
12 Sweet Briar College<br>
13 Webb Institute<br>
14 Whitman College<br>
15 Washington University in St. Louis<br>
16 Bennington College<br>
17 Bowdoin College<br>
18 Williams College<br>
19 New College of Florida<br>
20 The George Washington University

</p>

<p>Dorms Like Dungeons:</p>

<p>

1 United States Coast Guard Academy<br>
2 United States Merchant Marine Academy<br>
3 University of Hawaii-Manoa<br>
4 Hampton University<br>
5 University of Louisiana at Lafayette<br>
6 SUNY at Albany<br>
7 University of Florida<br>
8 University of Idaho<br>
9 SUNY College at Purchase<br>
10 University of Washington<br>
11 The University of South Dakota<br>
12 University of Missouri-Rolla<br>
13 Illinois Institute of Technology<br>
14 Louisiana State University<br>
15 University of Miami<br>
16 Stony Brook University<br>
17 Rider University<br>
18 SUNY at Buffalo<br>
19 University of Georgia<br>
20 University of Rhode Island

</p>

<p>Someone please tell me it aint so at Uni of Miami and Uni of florida, I am really considering those >_<.</p>

[hyakku]

<p>Most Beautiful Campus:</p>

<p>

1 Pepperdine University<br>
2 Princeton University<br>
3 Sweet Briar College<br>
4 Agnes Scott College<br>
5 Sewanee - The University of the South<br>
6 Mount Holyoke College<br>
7 Scripps College<br>
8 Kenyon College<br>
9 Loyola Marymount University
10 University of California-Santa Cruz<br>
11 Wellesley College<br>
12 Elon University<br>
13 Colgate University<br>
14 Warren Wilson College<br>
15 Vassar College<br>
16 College of the Atlantic<br>
17 St. Mary’s College of Maryland<br>
18 The College of New Jersey<br>
19 Swarthmore College<br>
20 Washington and Lee University

</p>

<p>Campus is tiny, unsightly or Both:

1 Drexel University<br>
2 SUNY at Albany<br>
3 SUNY College at Purchase<br>
4 Illinois Institute of Technology<br>
5 New Jersey Institute of Technology<br>
6 Cooper Union<br>
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
8 University of Dallas<br>
9 CUNY - Hunter College<br>
10 Rider University<br>
11 University of Tennessee - Knoxville<br>
12 Rochester Institute of Technology<br>
13 North Carolina State University<br>
14 Clarkson University<br>
15 Harvey Mudd College<br>
16 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick/Piscataway Campus<br>
17 SUNY at Binghamton<br>
18 SUNY at Buffalo<br>
19 Stony Brook University<br>
20 University of Massachusetts-Amherst

</p>

<p>Best Quality of life:

1 Rice University<br>
2 Stanford University<br>
3 Princeton University<br>
4 Washington University in St. Louis<br>
5 Claremont McKenna College<br>
6 The University of Tulsa<br>
7 Macalester College<br>
8 Middlebury College<br>
9 Dartmouth College<br>
10 Pomona College<br>
11 Barnard College<br>
12 Brigham Young University (UT)<br>
13 Clemson University<br>
14 Haverford College<br>
15 Amherst College<br>
16 Wheaton College (IL)<br>
17 Davidson College<br>
18 Brown University<br>
19 Smith College<br>
20 Pepperdine University

</p>

<p>Town - Gown Relations are great:</p>

<p>

1 Saint Olaf College<br>
2 Texas A&M University-College Station<br>
3 William Jewell College<br>
4 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering<br>
5 Ripon College<br>
6 Davidson College<br>
7 The University of Tulsa<br>
8 Wheaton College (IL)<br>
9 Eugene Lang College/New School University<br>
10 Stephens College<br>
11 Auburn University<br>
12 Clemson University<br>
13 College of the Ozarks<br>
14 Brigham Young University (UT)<br>
15 Wesleyan College<br>
16 Millsaps College<br>
17 Saint Michael’s College<br>
18 United States Naval Academy<br>
19 Samford University<br>
20 Agnes Scott College

</p>

<p>Town - Gown Relations are strained:</p>

<p>

1 Trinity College (CT)<br>
2 Sarah Lawrence College<br>
3 Union College (NY)<br>
4 Duke University<br>
5 Northwestern University<br>
6 Colorado College<br>
7 University of New Hampshire<br>
8 University of Pennsylvania<br>
9 Howard University<br>
10 DePauw University<br>
11 SUNY at Binghamton<br>
12 Vassar College<br>
13 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<br>
14 St. Bonaventure University<br>
15 New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology<br>
16 New Jersey Institute of Technology<br>
17 Illinois Institute of Technology<br>
18 Hofstra University<br>
19 Bennington College<br>
20 College of the Holy Cross

</p>

<p>Great College towns:

1 Eugene Lang College/New School University<br>
2 Barnard College<br>
3 Columbia University - Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science<br>
4 Suffolk University<br>
5 DePaul University<br>
6 Southern Methodist University<br>
7 McGill University<br>
8 University of San Francisco<br>
9 American University<br>
10 Simmons College<br>
11 Lewis & Clark College<br>
12 Emerson College<br>
13 Boston University<br>
14 The University of Texas at Austin<br>
15 New York University<br>
16 Georgetown University<br>
17 Northeastern University<br>
18 The George Washington University<br>
19 Cooper Union<br>
20 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

</p>

<p>More to Do on campus:

1 Union College (NY)<br>
2 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<br>
3 New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology<br>
4 Albion College<br>
5 New Jersey Institute of Technology<br>
6 Trinity College (CT)<br>
7 United States Coast Guard Academy<br>
8 University of Notre Dame<br>
9 Lehigh University<br>
10 Duke University<br>
11 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology<br>
12 Beloit College<br>
13 DePauw University<br>
14 Vassar College<br>
15 Wheaton College (MA)<br>
16 College of the Holy Cross<br>
17 SUNY at Binghamton<br>
18 University of the Pacific<br>
19 Baylor University<br>
20 Albertson College of Idaho

</p>

<p>That’s it for now, I didn’t really bother with academics as its usually the same top schools or so.</p>

<p>What do you guys think?</p>

[dwincho]

<p>Seems like least happy and campus aesthetics are correlated.</p>

[slipper1234]

<p>It ain’t so…</p>

<p>Miami University is the one in Ohio, you are thinking about the University of Miami.</p>

[hyakku]

<p>Yea, right there it says uni of miami has dorms like dungeons, I’m wondering if anyone knows differently or not?</p>

[superwizard]

<p>Hahaha just proves that Stanford isn’t just good academically; its good in everything!</p>

[SSobick]

<p>At UF it all depend on the dorm. Beaty and Keys Hall are very nice</p>

[columbia2007]

<p>

Great College towns:</p>

<p>Quote:
1 Eugene Lang College/New School University
2 Barnard College
3 Columbia University - Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
4 Suffolk University
5 DePaul University
6 Southern Methodist University
7 McGill University
8 University of San Francisco
9 American University
10 Simmons College
11 Lewis & Clark College
12 Emerson College
13 Boston University
14 The University of Texas at Austin
15 New York University

</p>

<p>What in god’s name!? Barnard, next door to Columbia, is ranked higher, and Columbia is only ranked for the engineering school, which is on the same campus as the college. New School is number one and NYU, which is basically intertwined with it, is 15!? Similar discrepency with intertwined Suffolk and Emerson. Madness.</p>

[system]

<p>Columbia07, since this is a student poll, I wouldn’t worry about little oddities like that</p>

<p>Though its pretty clear students like NYC</p>

[mathmom]

<p>The Great college towns listing I agree makes no sense. They should have done it by towns not colleges. Four of the top 20 share New York City as a best college town - though perhaps you could argue that the Village and the Upper West Side are differnet towns. Boston also has three univeristies. I’m surprised no one thinks Cambridge MA is a great college town.</p>

[system]

<p>University of Miami (Florida) does not have dorms like dungeons. They are just about to complete the new University Village apartments which are incredible for juniors & seniors.</p>

<p>For those that were supposed to live in the University Village apartments this fall semester but couldn’t because they are not done yet got put up in get this… The Biltmore Hotel which is a AAA 4-Diamond hotel!</p>

<p>Talk about some NICE living.</p>

[columbia2007]

<p>Even if you consider neighborhoods different towns, the fact that Columbia is across the street from Barnard and that there are New School buildings next to NYU ones makes this absurd.</p>

[Cre8tive1]

<p>Boston has four on there:</p>

<p>Simmons
Suffolk
Emerson
Boston University</p>

<p>I wouldn’t be suprised if Suffolk got #1, it is more intergrated into the city than any other school, Emerson straddles the Boston Commons (atleast there buildings are on one square), but Suffolk is scattered on Beacon Hill in NYU fashion.</p>

<p>Simmons with it’s small collected student body was probably easier to poll amongst the Boston school. The school is by no means peace of cakes, but academics are not as hard-pressed as it elite peers, among anyone, Berklee boys and Simmons girls are the ones I see enjoying the city the most. </p>

<p>And really this is a campus survey, so it really is judging a small sample of which kids love their city the most. Really their probably was no difference between the top three, but you have to seperate them somehow, and it can’t simply be b/c one school is academically better.</p>

<p>Really, different parts of town, different people, they study at different levels, and one student may get out a whole lot more than the others.</p>

<p>For instance, if I was BU, I’d definitely enjoy the city much less than I would at MIT, Northeastern, or Tufts. I enjoy easy access, having the nice skyline to look at from the hillside (Tufts) or from across the river (MIT), but I don’t need a six lane highway going through my campus and greenry and good asthetics are a must, too much concrete.</p>

[kk19131]

<p>It’s great that Evanston hates Northwestern. </p>

<p>Although the city would not exist without the school. Good ol’ EV,IL. :)</p>

<p>I’m also happy to see that PR realizes how much Drexel sucks.</p>

[pirt8528]

<p>how is tulane/ loyola not on best towns? new orleans is the best college town there is. period.</p>

[kk19131]

<p>When it’s not flooded and ravaged I’m sure. :)</p>

[Cre8tive1]

<p>It’s hard to judge, I mean i’m betting the campus was closed when these surveys were done…I know the French Quarters, the part that matters to students are intact, but facing the fact that Tulane is not the same school anymore, sorry to burst anyones bubble…</p>

<p>The schools been forced to let go of about 3,000 staff including a couple hundred teaching faculty, they’ve had to eliminate almost all of their engineering program, and reform there whole men’s college and women’s college establishment (there’s only one college now, btw).</p>

[misterme2009]

<p>Woot Rice No. 1 for quality of life and No. 1 for most race/class interaction. Take that people who say Houston sucks!</p>

[hyakku]

<p>

When it’s not flooded and ravaged I’m sure.

</p>

<p>LMAO my sentiments exactly, what type of question was that?</p>

[columbia2007]

<p>

Woot Rice No. 1 for quality of life and No. 1 for most race/class interaction. Take that people who say Houston sucks!

</p>

<p>Rice is a wonderful school. That doesn’t change anything about the fact that Houston sucks.</p>