The Princeton Review has named Eastern Michigan University
a "Best Midwestern College" for 2010. It marks the seventh
consecutive year that EMU has received the designation.
"We are thrilled to receive this designation because it
is driven by how our students feel about Eastern," said
EMU President Susan Martin. "It is a good yardstick for
where we are and where we need to go. We pride ourselves
on our accessibility, affordability, diversity and strong
educational experience; and all of those characteristics
are evident in the student comments about EMU."
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SEVEN UP: For the seventh
consecutive
year, Eastern
Michigan University has been
named
a 2010 "Best Midwestern
College" by The Princeton
Review.
|
The education services company selected EMU as one
of 158 institutions it profiles in its "Best in the
Midwest" section of its Web site feature, "2010 Best
Colleges: Region-by-Region," that posted July 27.
Eastern
Michigan students' responses included:
"The curriculum is designed to serve 'real people learning
through discussion and interaction' and taking advantage
of 'opportunities for education beyond the classroom, whether
it's through involvement in a student organization, attending
diversity programming or volunteering. There is always
an opportunity to make a difference, and it is truly an
empowering experience."
"EMU has 'a Student Center that is a great place to hang
out with friends, eat, study, play video games, curl up
with a good book, meet new people, and get homework done.'"
The 158 colleges The Princeton Review chose for this year's "Best
in the Midwest" designations are located in twelve
states: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri,
Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and
Wisconsin.
The Princeton Review also designated 218 colleges in the
Northeast, 123 in the West, and 141 in the Southeast as
best in their locales in the company's 2010 Best Colleges:
Region by Region section. The 640 colleges named "regional
best(s)" represent only about 25 percent of the nation's
2,500 four-year colleges.
The Princeton Review does not rank the colleges in its
2010 Best Colleges Region by Region Web site section. The
Princeton Review survey for this project asks students
to rate their own schools on several issues — from
the accessibility of their professors to quality of the
campus food — and answer questions about themselves,
their fellow students, and their campus life.
Students are surveyed with more than 80 questions in categories
such as "About Yourself," "Your Schools Academics/Administration," "Students," and "Life
at Your School."
For the complete EMU profile go to: http://www.princetonreview.com
