Baruch College Receives National Rankings by The Princeton Review, Forbes and Diverse Magazine
THE PRINCETON REVIEW: For the fifth consecutive year, Baruch College has been named one of the country’s best institutions for undergraduate education by The Princeton Review, which features Baruch College in the new 2013 edition of its annual college guide, “The Best 377 Colleges.
Only about 15% of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges are profiled in the book, which is The Princeton Review’s flagship college guide. It includes detailed profiles of the colleges with rating scores for all schools in eight categories, plus ranking lists of top 20 schools in the book in 62 categories based on The Princeton Review’s surveys of students attending the colleges
In the Princeton survey, students reported that Baruch College has: “great computer facilities, a great library, diverse student types on campus, and very little drug use.”
FORBES: Baruch College has been ranked #20 among America’s “Best Buy Colleges” on the just-released Forbes college ranking list. Baruch also ranked #351 among “America's Top Colleges,” leading the charge for all other CUNY senior colleges.
Forbes’ Top 100 “Best Buy Colleges” are calculated by taking each college’s overall quality rank on Forbes annual list of “America’s Top Colleges” and dividing that number by the school’s tuition (in-state where applicable) and additional fees. For the “America’s Top Colleges” list, Forbes evaluated 650 colleges which award undergraduate degrees or certificates requiring “4 or more years,” and focus on students’ needs and concerns: quality of teaching, great career prospects, high graduation rates and low-levels of debt.
