Calvin named to Princeton Review College Guide

Summary: Calvin College has been named a top college once again by the Princeton Review College Guide.

Calvin College has been included in the 2011 edition of the Princeton Review's annual college guide: "The Best 373 Colleges." Only about 15 percent of the nation's four-year colleges are included in the guide.

The guide bases its selections on institutional data, school visits, student feedback, and the opinions of the Princeton Review staff and 28-member National College Council Advisory Board.

The Princeton Review depends heavily on student surveys in forming each school's two-page profile.

For Calvin, one student says: "the resources available to students at Calvin are phenomenal. We have spectacular research facilities as well as a career development office that is very willing to engage with students."

Other students highlight the school's "sweet and accessible" study-abroad and internship opportunities, "serious academics from a Christian perspective," and professors that are "very approachable."

"We are pleased that Calvin's distinctively Christian, academically excellent program has again been recognized as being among the top in the country," said Russ Bloem, Calvin's vice president for enrollment management. "Students choosing Calvin can count on receiving an outstanding education from first-rate faculty and on being well prepared for their chosen career or graduate school."

Calvin is also among a select 25-percent of Midwestern schools chosen for the Princeton Review's "Best in the Midwest" section of their website feature, "2011 Best Colleges: Region by Region." The feature profiles schools that are recommended as "regional bests" across four locales: the Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, and the West.

For more info on the Princeton Review rankings, visit http://www.princetonreview.com/collegerankings

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Received on Tue Aug 3 08:11:00 2010