The Princeton Review included the State University of New York at Fredonia among the 380 best colleges in the U.S. in its 2016 rankings.
The “best colleges” represent only 15 percent of the 2,500 four-year colleges in the U.S. Fredonia was also ranked among the “Best Northeastern Colleges,” as well as a “Green College.”
In the listings with the rankings, Princeton Review noted that students call Fredonia a “beautiful, friendly, welcoming and accepting” school. “Most if not all professors are masters of their craft” and “are welcoming and have open-door policies.”The rankings are based on surveys of 136,000 students (average 358 per campus) at the 380 colleges in the book in 2014–15 and/or the previous two school years. The survey asked students 80 questions about their school's academics, administration, student body, and themselves. The ranking methodology used a five-point Likert scale to convert qualitative student assessments into quantitative data for school-to-school comparisons.
The Princeton Review college profiles also include ratings of the schools in eight categories including: Admissions Selectivity, Financial Aid, Fire Safety and Green. The ratings are based primarily on data from the company's surveys of administrators at the colleges in 2014–15.
The Best 380 Colleges" is one of 150 Penguin Random House/Princeton Review books.
