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August 5, 2008 (Notre Dame, Ind.)—The Princeton Review has rated Saint Mary’s College as one of the best colleges in the Midwest for the sixth year in a row. The New York City-based education services company selected the College as one of only 159 institutions to receive its "Best in the Midwest" designation on its website feature 2009 Best Colleges: Region by Region. The Princeton Review also designated 212 colleges in the Northeast, 139 in the Southeast, and 120 in the West as best in those parts of the country. The 630 colleges named "regional best(s)" represent only about 25% of the nation's 2,500 four-year colleges.
“We are very proud to be listed in the Princeton Review again this year,” said Carol Ann Mooney ’72, president of Saint Mary's College. “Our faculty is committed to undergraduate teaching, to contributing to our intellectual community, and to our distinctive mission. Small class sizes and individual attention are hallmarks of a Saint Mary’s education.”
Saint Mary's College has held the “Best in the Midwest” designation every year since the Princeton Review began the “Best Regional College” categorizations six years ago.
"We commend all of the schools we name this year as our 'regional best' colleges primarily for their excellent academic programs,” said Robert Franek, Princeton Review's Vice President of Publishing. “We selected them based on institutional data we collected from several hundred schools in each region, our visits to schools over the years, and the opinions of independent and high school-based college advisors whose recommendations we invite. We also take into account what each school’s customers – their students – report to us about their campus experiences at their schools on our 80-question student survey.”
The Princeton Review is a New York-based company known for its test preparation courses, books, and college admission and other education services. It is not affiliated with Princeton University and it is not a magazine.
About Saint Mary’s College: Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Ind., is a four-year, Catholic, women’s institution offering five bachelor’s degrees and more than 30 major areas of study. Saint Mary’s College has six nationally accredited academic programs: social work, art, music, teacher education, chemistry and nursing. Saint Mary's College ranks among the nation's top 100 liberal arts colleges in U.S. News & World Report's 2008 annual survey. Founded in 1844, Saint Mary’s is a pioneer in the education of women, and is sponsored by the Sisters of the Holy Cross.
