CONWAY, Ark. (July 28, 2009) – Hendrix 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.
Only about 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges are profiled in the book, which includes detailed profiles of the colleges with school rating scores in eight categories.
"We commend Hendrix for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our choice of schools for the book,” said Robert Franek, author of The Best 371 Colleges. “We make our choices based on institutional data we gather about schools, feedback from students attending them, and input from our staff, who visit hundreds of colleges a year.”
In its profile on Hendrix (pages 280-281), The Princeton Review praises the college for its involved student body and accepting atmosphere. Hendrix students are quoted extensively throughout the review, discussing everything from the “phenomenal [financial] aid that would be ridiculous to turn down” to the “awesome theme parties”. A political science major noted that “one of Hendrix’s selling points is the personal relationships that students build with their professors,” while another student credited professors for being "courageously friendly."
The Princeton Review's 62 ranking lists in The Best 371 Colleges 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. 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. A college's appearance on a ranking list is entirely the result of a high consensus among its surveyed students about a topic compared with that of students at other schools answering the same survey question(s) on the ranking list topic.
Hendrix appears on the ranking lists for “Easiest Campus to Get Around” and “Best Athletic Facilities.” It was also named a Best Southeastern College.
The Princeton Review posts the school profiles and ranking lists in "The Best 371 Colleges" on its site, www.PrincetonReview.com, at which users can read FAQs about the book, the survey, and the criteria for each of the ratings and rankings.
Hendrix, founded in 1876, is an undergraduate liberal arts college emphasizing experiential learning in a demanding yet supportive environment. The college is among 371 colleges featured in the 2010 edition of the Princeton Review America’s Best Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.
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