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Champlain Joins Princeton Review’s 2012 Best Colleges List

Champlain College is one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review, the widely known education services company. The College will be profiled in the forthcoming edition of its popular annual “best colleges” guidebook. The Best 376 Colleges: 2012 Edition will be available in bookstores and online in early August.

“We chose Champlain College as one of our ‘best’ undergraduate colleges based on several criteria we consider when reviewing schools for this book,” said Robert Franek, senior vice president of publishing for The Princeton Review. “First, we must have a high regard for their academic programs and other offerings. Second, our selections take into account institutional data we collect from the schools and the opinions of the students attending them whom we survey. We also greatly value the feedback we get about schools from our college-savvy staff across the country as well as from students, educators, and parents who use our services and books.”

Franek said, “It was a great pleasure reviewing your school’s impressive credentials. You have much to brag about!” He noted Champlain is one of only six institutions that will be added to the 2012 edition.

Champlain College President David F. Finney noted, “This recognition is a reflection of everyone at Champlain College for a continued commitment to providing the most student-centric, professionally focused education in the country.”

Said Franek, “Only about 15 percent of the colleges in the nation are in this book, and they vary considerably by region, size, selectivity, and character. It includes public and private schools, traditional and nontraditional colleges, historically black colleges and universities, and science and technology-focused institutions. However, each one is an outstanding institution we highly recommend to college applicants and their parents. In our opinion, these are ‘the crème of the crop’ institutions for undergraduates in America.”

“The last step of The Princeton Review’s process is capturing the real student experience and evaluating it against other top institutions,” Champlain Vice President of Enrollment Management Ian Mortimer added. “More than 200 Champlain students provided information on our college to the Review, and their stories and critical feedback are what sealed the deal; they told their story and the Review was clearly impressed.”