Lynchburg College is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review's 2010 edition, The Best 371 Colleges. Only about 15 percent of the 2,500 four-year colleges in America are selected for this guide.
Lynchburg College is one of the 141 colleges named a "Best Southeastern College" by The Princeton Review. In the 2010 edition, LC's green rating climbed from 73 in 2009 to 79, while its academic rating climbed from 78 to 80.
Students praise Lynchburg College for its "tight-knit" community and solid liberal arts education that helps "to prepare them for life."
Robert Franek, author of The Best 371 Colleges,says, "We commend Lynchburg College 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."
The Princeton Review's 62 ranking lists are entirely based on its survey of 122,000 students (about 325 per campus on average) attending the colleges in the book. The 80-question survey asks students to rate their schools on several topics and report on their campus experiences at them.
Topics range from student assessments of their professors, administrators, financial aid, and campus food. Other ranking lists are based on student reports about their student body's political leanings, race/class relations, gay community acceptance, and other aspects of campus life.
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