Xavier University Named Among Best Colleges By Princeton Review

Aug 8, 2019

Xavier University was once again ranked as one of the nation's top institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company featured XU for the 16th straight year in the release of the 2020 edition of its nationally-recognized college guide, "The Best 385 Colleges."

Only 13 percent of the United States' 3,000 four-year institutions are featured in the annual publication.

Xavier also ranks No. 4 overall for the category "Students Pack The Stadium," which is based on a survey response to the question "how popular are intercollegiate sports at your school?"

The Princeton Review's 62 ranking lists are based on its surveys of 140,000 students attending the 385 colleges in the book in 2018–19 and/or the previous two academic years. The company does not rank the 385 schools in the book hierarchically, from 1 to 385.

Rankings can be searched here for free by registering on The Princeton Review website.

The Princeton Review chooses colleges based on data it annually collects from administrators about their institutions’ academic offerings. The company also considers data it gathers from its surveys of college students who rate and report on various aspects of their campus and community experiences for this project.

"We chose the 385 colleges for this edition as our 'best' overall, academically, based on data we gathered in 2018–19 from more than a thousand school administrators about their schools' academic programs and offerings," said Robert Franek, The Princeton Review's Editor-in-Chief and lead author of the book. "We are well aware, however, that applicants need more than an academic assessment to choose the colleges best for them. We created our dozens of ranking lists specifically to facilitate that search. We tally our lists using data we gather directly from our surveys of students attending these colleges. Our survey asks the students about their professors, administrators, school services, campus culture, and other facets of life at their schools."

The full press release from The Princeton Review is available to read here.

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