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NEW YORK, April 24 /PRNewswire-USNewsire/ -- According to The Princeton Review, Rice University is the nation's "best value" private college, while New College of Florida is (for the second consecutive year) the "best value" public college. The schools hold #1 spots on the top 10 private / top 10 public "best value" colleges ranking lists in the new 2008 edition of its annual book "America's Best Value Colleges" (Random House / Princeton Review, $18.95), on sale today. The book profiles 165 schools the New York-based education services company recommends as the best undergraduate education deals this year.
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The Princeton Review (unaffiliated with the university) declared Princeton the 10th strongest "jock school" in the nation. It has ... consistently been ranked at the top of TIME'[S] "Strongest College Sports Teams" lists. Most recently, Princeton was ranked as a top 10 school for athletics by Sports Illustrated. Princeton is well known for its men and women's crews, winning several NCAA and Eastern Sprints titles in recent years.
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"Best 366 Colleges" is one of 200 Princeton Review books published by Random House. Eight schools were added to the 2008 edition. In addition to its profiles on the schools and ranking lists, the book has a new section with lists of "Great Colleges for 15 of the Most Popular College Majors." The book was first published in 1992. No school has ever paid a fee to be in it.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Princeton Review -- known for its annual "Best 357 Colleges" rankings based on surveys of students who rate their schools -- tomorrow releases two new graduate school guides, each of which report school rankings. "Best 117 Law Schools" and "Best 143 Business Schools" (Random House / Princeton Review, $22.95 each, 2005 Editions, 9/21/04) each feature 11 lists of top 10 ranking schools in various categories. The Princeton Review compiled the lists based on institutional data from the schools and surveys of students attending them in 2003-04.
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The Princeton Review survey asks students 80 questions about their school's academics, administration, campus life, student body, and themselves. Tallies for this edition's rankings are based on surveys of 120,000 students (about 325 per campus) at the 366 schools in the book (not at all schools nationwide) during the 2006-07 and / or previous two school years. Ninety percent were completed online at http://survey.review.com. Ten percent were paper surveys conducted on campuses. The schools in the book are not ranked academically nor are they ranked 1 to 366 in any category.
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The Princeton Review's ranking lists reporting the top 20 colleges in these and over 50 other categories appear in the 2008 edition of its college guidebook "Best 366 Colleges" (Random House / Princeton Review, $21.95), on sale tomorrow. Other list categories cover campus politics, race/class relations, social scene, gay community acceptance, sports interests, and town- gown relations. The book's ranking lists will ... be posted on www.PrincetonReview.com after 5 pm EDT today.
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