IN NEW 2012 EDITIONS OF ITS ANNUAL COLLEGE GUIDES AND WEBSITE PROFILES OF SCHOOLS
- Ratings Based on Environmental Practices, Policies and Course Offerings
- Honor Roll Salutes 16 Colleges Receiving Highest Green Rating Score: 99
NEW YORK, August 1, 2011 – The Princeton Review – known for its education services helping students choose and get in to colleges – today reported its fourth annual Green Ratings of colleges: a measure of how environmentally friendly the institutions are on a scale of 60 to 99. The Company tallied the rating for 768 institutions based its institutional surveys of colleges in 2010–11 concerning their environmentally related practices, policies and academic offerings.
The Green Rating scores appear in the profiles of the 768 schools that The Princeton Review today posted on www.PrincetonReview.com. They are also in the profiles of those schools in the new 2011 editions of three Princeton Review guidebooks: "The Best 376 Colleges" ($22.99) and "Complete Book of Colleges" ($26.99) – on sale August 2, published by Random House.
The Princeton Review's "2011 Green Rating Honor Roll"
The Princeton Review also today named 16 colleges to its "2012 Green Rating Honor Roll" – a list of colleges that received the highest possible score (99) in its Green Rating tallies this year. Published in "The Best 376 Colleges" guidebook, the list includes:
(in alphabetical order)
- American University (Washington DC)
- Arizona State University (Tempe)
- College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor ME)
Dickinson College (Carlisle PA)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta)
- Harvard College (Cambridge MA)
- Northeastern University (Boston MA)
- Oregon State University (Corvallis)
- San Francisco State University (San Francisco CA)
- State University of New York - Binghamton University
- University of California – Santa Cruz
- University of Maine (Orono)
- University of Washington (Seattle)
- University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point
- Virginia Tech (Blacksburg VA)
- Warren Wilson College (Asheville NC)
Said Robert Franek, Princeton Review Senior VP / Publisher, "We commend the administrators, faculty and students at the schools on our Green Rating Honor Roll for their exemplary commitments to the environment. Also, we thank the 768 institutions that supplied us with data we requested to tally their Green Rating scores this year. We are pleased to play a role in helping students identify, apply to, and get into these schools."
Franek noted the rising interest among students in attending green colleges. Among 8,200 college applicants The Princeton Review surveyed this year for its annual "College Hopes & Worries Survey," 69% said having information about a college's commitment to the environment would impact their decision to apply to or attend a school.
Criteria for Princeton Review's Green Rating cover three areas: 1/ whether the school’s students have a campus quality of life that is healthy and sustainable, 2/ how well the school is preparing its students for employment and citizenship in a world defined by environmental challenges, and 3/ the school's overall commitment to environmental issues.
The institutional survey for the rating included questions on energy use, recycling, food, buildings, and transportation as well as academic offerings and action plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Princeton Review developed its Green Rating with ecoAmerica (www.ecoamerica.org), a non-profit environmental organization, in 2007-08.
The Princeton Review dedicated a resource area on its site www.princetonreview.com/green for students interested in attending a green college. There, users can also download "The Princeton Review's Guide to 311 Green Colleges: 2011 Edition" – the only free, comprehensive guidebook to the nation's most environmentally responsible colleges. The 220-page guide is a project The Princeton Review has done for two years in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council (www.usgbc.org). Published April 20, it has profiles of schools that received scores in the 80th or higher percentile in the Company's 2010 tallies for its Green Ratings. The guide can be downloaded at www.princetonreview.com/green-guide.aspx or at www.centerforgreenschools.org/greenguide.
About The Princeton Review College Ratings and College Rankings
The Princeton Review college ratings are scores on a scale of 60 to 99 in up to eight categories that appear on college profiles on its site and college guidebooks. The ratings are based primarily on institutional data. Categories include Academics, Admissions Selectivity, Financial Aid, Fire Safety and Green. The Princeton Review explains the criteria for each rating at www.princetonreview.com/college/college-ratings.aspx
The Princeton Review college rankings are lists of schools in 62 categories (in rank order: 1 to 20) based entirely on the Company's surveys of 122,000 students attending the schools in its book, "The Best 376 Colleges." The survey asks students to rate their own schools on dozens of topics and report on their campus experiences at them. The Princeton Review explains the basis for each ranking list at www.princetonreview.com/college/college-rankings.aspx
The Princeton Review, headquartered in Framingham, MA with editorial offices in New York City and test preparation locations across the country and abroad, is not affiliated with Princeton University and it is not a magazine.
About The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review (Nasdaq: REVU) has been a pioneer and leader in helping students achieve their higher education goals for more than 28 years through college and graduate school test preparation and tutoring. With more than 165 print and digital publications and a free website, (www.PrincetonReview.com), the Company provides students and their parents with the resources to research, apply to, prepare for, and learn how to pay for higher education. The Princeton Review also partners with schools and guidance counselors throughout the U.S. to assist in college readiness, test preparation and career planning services, helping more students pursue postsecondary education. The Company also owns and operates Penn Foster Education Group, a global leader in online education. Penn Foster provides career-focused degree and vocational programs in the fields of allied health, business, technology, education, and select trades through the Penn Foster High School and Penn Foster Career School (www.pennfoster.edu), which are headquartered in Scranton, PA.
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Available for interviews from New York
The Princeton Review's Robert Franek, Senior VP / Publisher, or David Soto, College Ratings Director, can discuss the Company's Green Rating, surveys and various colleges' Green Rating scores and programs.
Contact
Joseph Iovino, Princeton Review, 888-865-7737 ext 5678 (JIovino@review.com)
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