Babson College is one of the country's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review.  The education services company features the school in the new 2010 edition of its popular guidebook, "The Best 371 Colleges" (Random House / Princeton Review, July 2009).

Says Robert Franek, Princeton Review's V.P., Publishing and author of "The Best 371 Colleges," "We commend Babson for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our choice of schools for the book.   We also work to keep a wide representation of colleges in the book by region, size, selectivity and character.  We make our choices based on institutional data we gather about schools, feedback from students attending them, and input from our staff who visits hundreds of colleges a year.  We also value the opinions and suggestions of our 23-member National College Counselor Advisory Board, and independent college counselors we hear from yearlong." 

In its profile on Babson, The Princeton Review praises the school for its campus safety, diversity, and its quickly ascending national profile and extensively quotes Babson students that The Princeton Review surveyed for the book.  Among their comments about their student experiences, one student stated “From executives of Fortune 500 companies to entrepreneurs who own multi-million dollar companies, the knowledge of professors at Babson is only rivaled by their desire to see students do well.”

In a "Survey Says. . ." sidebar in the book's profile, The Princeton Review lists topics that Babson students surveyed for the book were in most agreement about in their answers to survey questions.   The list includes: "the college is well run," "low cost of living" and “diverse student types on campus".

The school profiles in "The Best 371 Colleges" also have ratings that are based largely on institutional data The Princeton Review collected during the 2008-09 academic year.  The ratings are scores on a scale of 60 to 99 that are tallied in eight categories.  Among them are ratings for Admissions Selectivity, Financial Aid, Fire Safety, and Green, a rating The Princeton Review introduced in 2008 that is a measure of school's commitment to environmentally related policies, practices and education.  Among the ratings in the profile on Babson are scores of 93 for Admission Rating, 90 for Financial Aid, and 88 for Academics.

The Princeton Review posts the school profiles and ranking lists in "The Best 371 Colleges" on its site at http://www.PrincetonReview.com at which users can read FAQs about the book, the survey, and the criteria for each of the ratings and rankings.

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