Calvin One of Top 331
EDITOR'S UPDATE: Read the Princeton Review's profile of Calvin.
Calvin College is one of just six Michigan schools included in the 2002 edition of The Princeton Review's "The Best 331 Colleges."
Calvin is joined by the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Michigan Tech University as well as MIAA colleagues Albion and Kalamazoo colleges.
"The Best 331 Colleges" will be available August 21 and is described as the only college guidebook offering both profiles of the nation's top schools (fewer than 10 percent of America's colleges are in it) and college rankings based on campus feedback about them.
The book profiles each of the 331 best colleges in the country. It also compiles some 65,000 student surveys from the 331 colleges on everything from academics to campus life and then lists the top 20 colleges in 62 categories, based on what students at the schools say about them.
For example, for 2002 the "Best Run College" is Harvard, the "Best Dorms" are found at Bryn Mawr and the "Best Library" is at the University of Virginia. The "Top Party School" is the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, while the "Top Stone Cold Sober" school is Brigham Young.
Calvin made six of the 62 lists, including:
- Scotch and Soda, Hold the Scotch (#3)
- Students Pray on a Regular Basis (#6)
- Stone-Cold Sober Schools (#10)
- Got Milk? (#14)
- Most Politically Active (#17)
- Class Discussions Encouraged (#20)
Albion, Kalamazoo and Michigan Tech were not on any of the 62 lists. But both Michigan and Michigan State made various lists, including "Jock Schools," where Michigan was second and MSU was third, and "Students Pack the Stadiums" where Michigan was second and MSU was sixth. Michigan and Michigan State also were fifth and sixth respectively on the "Major Frat and Sorority Scene" list.
MSU was 13th on the "TAs Teach Too Many Upper Level Courses" list, while Michigan made the "Great Library," "Professors Suck All Life From Material," "Everyone Plays Intramural Sports," and "Great College Town" lists at numbers seven, eight, nine and 10 respectively.
Those lists are generated when, at each college, a random sample of students (200 per campus on average) answers 70 questions about their own school's academics, campus life and student body, as well as their study hours, politics, and opinions. The survey, a multiple-choice, grid-based questionnaire, is distributed and collected on the campuses. A small percent of surveys is conducted electronically. All surveys are done with the permission and cooperation of college administrators at each school.