HOUGHTON IN THE PRINCETON REVIEW COLLEGE GUIDE,
“THE BEST NORTHEASTERN COLLEGES-2006 EDITION”
Houghton College
is one of 224 select colleges and universities in the Northeast that The
Princeton Review profiles in the new 2006 edition of its book, The Best
Northeastern Colleges (Random House / Princeton Review, August 2, 2005,
$16.95).
Says Robert
Franek, V.P., Publishing, The Princeton Review, "The schools in this book all
have excellent academic programs. We chose them from several hundred
Northeastern schools we considered based on institutional data we collect
about the schools, our surveys of students at them, and our visits to schools
over the years. We also worked to have a wide representation of colleges in
the book by size, selectivity, character and locale.” The book includes
schools in the District of Columbia and eleven states: Connecticut, Delaware,
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.
For this edition,
The Princeton Review surveyed 53,000 students at the 224 schools in the
book. Students were asked to rate their schools on several matters from the
teaching ability of their profs to the campus food, and report on their
experiences at them. Candid comments from surveyed students lace the book's
narrative profiles of the colleges. Some of the student comments in the
profile on academics are: "rigorous academics, religious devotion, warm
community, awesome music program, superb English and education department,
completely wired campus, personal atmosphere in the classroom, good business
department, good pre-med program, one of the top equestrian programs in the
nation with Olympic-level coaching available, and professor are always ready
to answer questions, discuss issues, and challenge students to be open-minded
and discerning."
