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St. Lawrence University receives ‘best’ ratings from Princeton Review, Sierra Club, Forbes, Fiske

Posted 8/27/12

 CANTON - St. Lawrence University is getting good reviews from national publications that annually rate and rank colleges and universities. The Princeton Review has once again rated St. Lawrence …

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St. Lawrence University receives ‘best’ ratings from Princeton Review, Sierra Club, Forbes, Fiske

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 CANTON - St. Lawrence University is getting good reviews from national publications that annually rate and rank colleges and universities.

The Princeton Review has once again rated St. Lawrence University as one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education and included St. Lawrence as one of 220 institutions recommended as the "Best in the Northeast."

The 2013 edition includes 377 colleges, the top 15 percent of the 2,500 schools in the country. The rankings are based on collected data, student feedback, school visits and the opinions of college counselors, students and parents. The university is also included in its list of schools with the best food on campus -- one of only 20 in the entire nation so selected.

Sierra magazine, published by the Sierra Club, has again named St. Lawrence a "cool school" in its list of colleges demonstrating a commitment to a sustainable environment. The publication only ranked 96 colleges in this year's issue, explaining, "This year's winners in the annual ranking of America's greenest colleges are not only committed to the cause but also meticulous about quantifying the results of their efforts. To place high, schools had to rock every one of our survey's categories, from waging war on emissions to serving sustainable foods to teaching a verdant curriculum."

St. Lawrence is also included in Forbes magazine's list of "America's Top Colleges." Only 650 of the nation's colleges made the list, of which the editors state, "Our annual list of America's best undergraduate institutions focuses on educational outcomes, not reputations."

The university announced earlier this month its inclusion in the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2013, which selects only 300 four-year colleges in the United States, Canada and Great Britain to profile.