46 New York Colleges Named Best in United States
Forty-six of the nation's best colleges are found in New York, including a number from the Hudson Valley.
The Princeton Review's 27th annual college rankings were released on Monday. The review named the 384 best colleges in the United States. 46 of the best colleges are found in New York.
The Princeton Review came up with their list by asking over 138,000 students to rate their schools on dozens of topics of interest to applicants.
The Princeton Review didn't rank the colleges, the review only listed them in alphabetical order. Here are the New York colleges that made the list.
- Alfred College
- Bard College
- Barnard College
- CUNY Baruch
- Binghamton University
- Brooklyn College
- City College of New York
- Clarkson
- Colgate
- Columbia
- The Cooper Union
- Cornell
- Fordham
- Hamilton College
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- Hofstra
- Hunter College
- Ithaca College
- Le Moyne
- Manhattan College
- Manhattanville
- Marist
- Nazareth
- NYU
- Pace
- Queens College
- RPI
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Sarah Lawrence
- Siena
- Skidmore
- St. Bonaventure
- St. John's
- St. Lawrence
- Stony Brook
- SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
- SUNY Geneseo
- SUNY Purchase
- Syracuse
- Union College
- University of Rochester
- U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
- United States Military Academy
- Vassar
- Wagner
- Webb Institute
Of the Hudson Valley colleges, here are where they ranked on some of the Princeton Review's additional categories, according to UPNY.com
Bard College:
- #2 Reefer Madness
- #5 Tree-Hugging Vegetarians
- #12 Administrators Get Low Marks
- #13 Best College Theater
- #13 Least Religious Students
- #14 Best Classroom Experience
- #14 Nobody Plays Intramural Sports
- #15 Professors Get High Marks
Marist:
- #8 Most Popular Study Abroad Program
- #20 Most Beautiful Campus
- #37 Top 50 Game Design: Ugrad
United States Military Academy:
- #1 Most Accessible Professors
- #2 Best Classroom Experience
- #2 Don't Inhale
- #3 Best College Library
- #3 Lots of Race/Class Interaction
- #3 Best Health Services
- #6 Best Science Lab Facilities
- #8 Everyone Plays Intramural Sports
- #8 Most Engaged in Community Service
- #10 Is That a Dorm?
- #11 Stone-Cold Sober Schools
- #11 Their Students Love These Colleges
- #12 College City Gets Low Marks
- #14 Most Conservative Students
- #15 Scotch and Soda, Hold the Scotch
- #15 Students Study the Most
Vassar:
- #4 Great Financial Aid
- #6 Best College Library
- #7 LGBTQ-Friendly
- #8 Best Financial Aid
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