Clarkson University Featured in The Princeton Review’s Best 390 Colleges for 2025
Clarkson is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduates according to The Princeton Review. The education services company profiles and recommends Clarkson in the new edition of its annual college guide, The Best 390 Colleges: 2025 Edition.
Only about 15% of America’s 2,600 four-year colleges are profiled in the book. The Princeton Review chose the colleges for the book based on data it annually collects from surveys of 2,000 college administrators about their institutions’ academic offerings. The company also reviews data from its surveys of college students attending the schools who report on their experiences at their institutions.
"We salute Clarkson for its outstanding academics, and many other impressive offerings. We recommend it as an ideal choice for students searching for their ‘best-fit’ college,” said Rob Franek, The Princeton Review's Editor-in-Chief and lead author of The Best 390 Colleges.
In the profile on Clarkson, The Princeton Review editors praise the school for “being on the leading edge of today’s emerging technologies and fields of study, offering innovative, boundary spanning degree programs in engineering and management, digital arts and sciences, environmental science and policy, and the health professions, among others.” They quote Clarkson students the company surveyed for this project. Some of the student comments are, "I love my professors, they are always willing to help. The professors can be tough, but they are engaging, fun, and very knowledgeable about their curriculum” and other say "Clarkson is a close-knit community of people who are very open to conversation and very friendly.”
The Princeton Review does not rank the colleges in the book hierarchically, from 1 to 390. However, the book has 50 categories of ranking lists. Each list names the top 25 schools (of those in the book) in its category. The ranking lists are entirely based on The Princeton Review’s surveys of 168,000 students at the 390 schools in the book. The 89-question survey asked students to rate their colleges on dozens of topics and report on their campus experiences at them. Information on the student survey process and methodology for the ranking lists is on The Princeton Review’s website here.
The school profiles and ranking lists in The Best 390 Colleges are posted here (at:
https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings/best-colleges) where they can be searched for free.
The Best 390 Colleges is one of more than 150 Princeton Review books in a line published by Penguin Random House. The annual book and its rankings have been featured on NBC TODAY more than two dozen times and referenced by many other media from NPR to The Wall Street Journal and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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