MOUNT VERNON - Cornell College is featured in the new 2006 edition of “The Best 361 Colleges” from the
Princeton Review.
About 15 percent of the four-year colleges in America are featured in the book, which went on sale Tuesday. The Princeton Review surveyed 110,000 students on specific topics and their overall campus experiences, ranking the schools in 62 categories. Ranking list categories range from best professors, administration and campus food to lists based on student body political leanings, interests in sports and other aspects of campus life. Cornell ranks among the top 10 at colleges where students are pleased with their financial assistance, and among the top 20 where class discussions are encouraged and professors make themselves accessible.
“The professors make this school what it is. Most don’t hold scheduled office hours because they’re there all the time, and they’re always there for the students, whether it be to talk about last night’s game or the upcoming test,” according to a student quoted in Cornell’s two-page profile.
Recognized as one of the nation’s top liberal arts colleges, Cornell College is distinctive in U.S. higher education in offering the combination of liberal arts and science study within the One-Course-At-A-Time framework in an active residential community. Cornell also is featured in the Princeton Review’s 2006 edition of “ America’s Best Value Colleges,” Loren Pope’s “Colleges That Change Lives,” Student Horizons’ “Colleges of Distinction” and Kaplan’s “Guide to the 331 Most Interesting Colleges.”
