ORU Named a “Best in the West” by The Princeton Review
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020
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Tulsa, OK – Oral Roberts University is excited to once again be named among the 127 best colleges in the West according to The Princeton Review. The education services company lists ORU in the Best in the West section of its "2021 Best Colleges: Region by Region" website feature that posted on August 18, 2020.
The website feature salutes 655 colleges that The Princeton Review recommends over five regions: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, West, and International. The colleges that made the "Best in the West" list are located in fifteen Western states. Instead of being ranked, the schools in each region are listed in alphabetical order by school name.
"We chose ORU and the other outstanding institutions on this list primarily for their academics," said Robert Franek, The Princeton Review's Editor-in-Chief. He noted that the company considered data from its survey of administrators at several hundred colleges in each region, information from staff visits to schools over the years, and the opinions of college counselors and advisors whose perspectives the company solicits. "We also consider what students enrolled at the schools reported to us on our student survey about their campus experiences," Franek added.
The Princeton Review survey asks students to rate their colleges on dozens of issues and to answer questions about themselves, their fellow students, and their campus life. Comments from surveyed students are quoted in the school profiles on The Princeton Review website.
The 127 colleges that The Princeton Review chose for its "Best in the West" 2021 list are located in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Collectively, the colleges on The Princeton Review’s “regional best" lists for 2021 constitute about 23% of the nation's 2,800 four-year colleges.
The Princeton Review is an education services company known for its tutoring, test-prep, books, and other student resources. Headquartered in New York, NY, it is not affiliated with Princeton University.