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Southern Methodist University has fallen off the Princeton Review’s list of “LGBT-unfriendly” schools after holding a top-20 position for a number of years. Texas, however, continues to lead the nation with three schools on the most-homophobic list, while having none ranked most-LGBT-friendly. The three Texas schools ranked LGBT-unfriendly are Baylor, Texas A&M and the University of Dallas. A&M also ranks No. 1 for most conservative students. The Princeton Review surveys student attitudes at hundreds of schools on a number of campus-related issues to help students find “best-fit” colleges. SMU officials have questioned whether their school ever belonged on the list....

Liberal group takes credit for audience member asking Obama to raise taxes By Alicia M. Cohn - 09/28/11 09:32 AM ET Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, a campaign by the progressive group The Agenda Project, on Tuesday took credit for a member of the audience who asked President Obama to raise his taxes during a town hall meeting in Silicon Valley on Monday. “Will you please raise my taxes?” the man said. “It kills me to see Congress not supporting the expiration of the tax cuts that have been benefiting so many of us for so long." It was a...

(CNN) – Bennington College students recently learned that their Vermont school had received an honor that some might consider dubious: They attend the least religious college in America, according to an annual educational survey. Bennington’s selection was part of an intriguing national survey listing the Top 5 colleges in the U.S. for most and least religious students. The survey is part of a larger study conducted by the Princeton Review, a Massachusetts-based educational services company, for its new book, “The Best 376 Colleges: 2012 edition.” Princeton Review interviewed 122,000 students at 376 top colleges to rate their schools and describe...

Ohio University, set in an Appalachian town known for its rowdy Halloween bashes, has been named the nation's No. 1 party school, pushing the University of Georgia down a slot in the 2011 Princeton Review survey released Monday. Rounding out the top five are No. 3 University of Mississippi, No. 4 University of Iowa and No. 5 University of California Santa Barbara. This year's student survey found that, overall, California does not know how to party. UC Santa Barbara was the only school in California to make the top 20 list. The Princeton Review survey is part of its 2012...

Green Mind Control Bethany Stotts, April 29, 2010 A review of the Princeton Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges shows that environmental “literacy” has become a mandatory education component at over three dozen “green” colleges, with entries for 37 of the 286 campuses indicating that these schools have an “environmental literacy requirement” for the student body. As examples given in the guide show, environmental “literacy” includes not only learning about environmental issues but teaching students to adopt green lifestyles and how to reduce their carbon footprint: For example, the guide states that at New England College “…every NEC student receives...

The Best Value Colleges were selected based upon institutional data and student opinion surveys collected from the fall of 2007 through fall of 2008. Broadly speaking, the factors we weighed covered undergraduate academics, costs and financial aid. Additionally, we considered the percentage of graduating seniors who borrowed from any loan program and the average dollar amount of debt those students had at graduation. Learn more about our best value colleges methodology. CLICK HERE FOR THE LIST OF BEST VALUES COLLEGES : PUBLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (Listed alphabetically): http://www.princetonreview.com/SchoolList.aspx?id=788&uidbadge= PRIVATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (Listed alphabetically) : http://www.princetonreview.com/SchoolList.aspx?id=789&uidbadge=

List of top party schools by Princeton Review By The Associated Press Following is a list of the top party schools in the nation, according to Princeton Review's survey of 120,000 students. 1. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 2. University of Mississippi, University, Miss. 3. Penn State University, University Park, Pa. 4. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va. 5. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. 6. Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va. 7. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. 8. University of Texas, Austin, Texas. 9. University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif. 10. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla. 11. University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H....

The Princeton Review's annual list of best colleges included lists of colleges most accepting of LGBT students and those least accepting. The Princeton Review's annual "The Best 361 Colleges" was released Tuesday, and authors included lists of the colleges that are most accepting of LGBT students and those that are not. According to a survey taken by 110,000 students at 361 top colleges, the 10 schools that ranked the best in being accepting toward gay students are: New College of Florida, Sarasota; Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn.; Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.; Eugene Lang College, New York City; Mount Holyoke College,...

Welcome to The Princeton Review | Sign In | Register | Student Tools Home > Colleges & Careers Site   School Additional Options How do you know that you'll be comfortable -- and that others will be comfortable with you -- at your chosen college? We dish the dirt about demographic backgrounds, lifestyle attitudes and religion. The Best 357 CollegesBuy it from bn.com Diversity University Monochromatic Institute Lots of Race/Class Interaction Little Race/Class Interaction Diverse Student Population Homogeneous Student Population Students Ignore God on a Regular Basis Students Pray on a Regular Basis Gay Community Accepted Alternative Lifestyles Not An Alternative Are...