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MARIST NAMED ONE OF NATION'S BEST BY THE PRINCETON REVIEW
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For the seventh year in a row, Marist College is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The New York-based education services company features Marist in The Best 371 Colleges, the 2010 edition of its annual "best colleges" guide. Only about 15 percent of America's four-year colleges and two Canadian colleges are profiled in the book.
The book's profile calls Marist "a smaller private school in a nice area with a great campus life, (that) offers a surprising range of options to its largely career-minded student population." In particular, the guide highlights Marist's School of Management, criminal justice department, and teacher education, communications, and fashion programs. The guide notes "all departments benefit from the school's unique partnership with IBM, which translates into very advanced computer technology and Web services. (The) online library is very extensive and extremely helpful for research papers and projects."
Student reviewers "appreciate the school's vigorous efforts to place them in meaningful internships.
Students also love the intensive study-abroad program, through which they can go almost anywhere in the world for the same prices as a semester at Marist."
"We commend Marist College for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criterion for our choice of schools for the book," said Robert Franek, Princeton Review's vice president for publishing. "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 visit 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 student surveys cite Marist's "breathtaking views of the Hudson River and a great campus complete with nature trails and a riverfront park." Students wrote, "Many here are extremely concerned with life after college, and therefore many engage in activities and internships that will give them more experience in their career." They also give high praise to college activities for providing a wide variety of entertainment venues and performances on the Marist campus, and to many cultural and recreational opportunities that exist in the surrounding region and New York City.
"What makes our continued inclusion in this prestigious publication even more satisfying is that ratings by our students played a major role in Marist being listed," said college president Dennis J. Murray. "That means students come to Marist for its quality faculty and staff, programs, internships, and study abroad opportunities, receive the best education, have fun, graduate, and get good jobs."
The Princeton Review also named the Marist College School of Management one of the "best 290 business schools" in the country.
Information on the schools in The Best 371 Colleges is posted on the publisher's web site
www.PrincetonReview.com. The Princeton Review is not affiliated with Princeton University or the Educational Testing Service.
For further information, call the Marist College Office of Public Affairs at (845) 575-3174.
