The Best 368 Colleges

Princeton was named the Most Beautiful College (again)

On sale, starting today, is the 2009 edition of Princeton Review’s annual guide to Colleges: The Best 368 Colleges. The guide can be picked up at your local bookstore, or even cheaper at Amazon. The guide ranks Colleges across the nation over a wide variety of categories, including a new “Green rating”.

The rankings were complied by asking 120,000 College students questions about their respective colleges, in a survey.

The rankings rate the best 368 colleges on a numerical score ranging from 60 to 99 in eight categories, as well as rankings in over 50 other categories.

Here are some notable winners and their respective categories:

• Best Professors: Middlebury College
• Tastiest Campus Food: Wheaton College
• Best Dorms: Loyola College
• Best Financial Aid: Princeton University
• Most Beautiful Campus: Princeton University
• Best Career / Job Placement Services: Northeastern University
• Best Classroom Experience: Stanford University
• Most Conservative Students: Texas A&M University
• Most Liberal Students: Occidental College
• Most Politically Active Students: American University
• Top Party School: University of Florida
• Top Stone-Cold Sober School: Brigham Young University
• Least Religious Students: Lewis & Clark College
• Race / Class Relations Friendliest: Pitzer College
• Most Diverse Student Body: City University of New York – Baruch College
• Gay Community Most Accepted: Emerson College
• Best Athletic Facilities: University of Maryland at College Park
• Everyone Plays Intramural Sports: University of Notre Dame
• Great College Town: DePaul University