MOUNT VERNON – For the second consecutive year, Cornell College is featured in
“The Best 361 Colleges” from the Princeton Review.
About 15 percent of the four-year colleges in America are featured in the 2007 edition of the book, which went on sale Tuesday. The Princeton Review surveyed 115,000 students on specific topics and their overall campus experiences, ranking the schools in 62 categories. Cornell ranks among the top 15 in three categories – as a college where students are pleased with their financial assistance, where class discussions are encouraged and where 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. Cornell also is featured again in the third edition of “Colleges That Change Lives,” a book by former New York Times education reporter Loren Pope. And Cornell was recently cited by the Times as one of 20 hidden gems in higher education that “stress undergraduate teaching, have established or rising scholarship” and are good alternatives to popular brand-name universities. The Times recognized four “northern plains” colleges: Carleton, Cornell, Grinnell and Macalester.
