Chestertown, MD, March 7, 2007 — Washington College is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to the Princeton Review.
The New York-based company known for its test-prep courses, books and other education services has honored Washington College by selecting it for inclusion in the forthcoming edition of the popular annual Best Collegesguidebook.
The Best 366 Colleges: 2008 Edition (Random House/Princeton Review Books, $21.95) will be available in bookstores in August 2007.
"Only about 10 percent of the colleges in America are in this book," said Robert Franek, Vice President of Publishing at the Princeton Review. "It is our flagship guide to the cream-of-the-crop institutions for undergraduates."
To be counted among the ranks of the very best, Washington College and the nation's other top schools were judged on a spectrum of factors, Franek explained. "We chose them as our best based on several criteria, including our regard for their academic programs and other offerings, institutional data we collect from the schools, and the opinions of students, parents and educators we talk to and survey."
The Best 366 Colleges includes public and private schools, traditional and non-traditional colleges, historically black colleges and universities, and science and technology-focused institutions.
What sets the Princeton Review's annual Best Colleges guide apart from all other higher-education guidebooks is that it is the only one offering two-page profiles on the schools along with college-ranking lists in more than 60 categories, based on surveys of more than 115,000 students.
Thus, the students themselves rate their own schools and report on their experiences at them.
When each edition is published, the Princeton Review posts the book's ranking lists and excerpts from the college profiles on its influential web site, www.princetonreview.com.
"We present a wide range of colleges in the book," noted Franek. "They vary by region, size, selectivity and character, but each one is an outstanding institution."
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