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LEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014Transylvania University is listed in The Princeton Review\u2019s \u201cThe Best 378 Colleges,\u201d a ranking that includes the top 15 percent of America\u2019s 2,500 four-year colleges. <\/p>\nLEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014Transylvania University is listed in The Princeton Review\u2019s \u201cThe Best 378 Colleges,\u201d a ranking that includes the top 15 percent of America\u2019s 2,500 four-year colleges. <\/p>\n
\u201cTransylvania University offers outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our choice of schools for the book,\u201d said Robert Franek, Princeton Review’s senior vice president and author of “The Best 378 Colleges.\u201d<\/p>\n
The book\u2019s two-page profile of Transylvania includes comments from students surveyed for the book. Students described Transylvania as an \u201cextremely close-knit campus\u201d with a \u201cstrong sense of community.\u201d They said that Transylvania strives to provide \u201ca holistic educational experience where one can grow intellectually and academically while participating in a vibrant social community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other students said that they work \u201cridiculously hard,\u201d but that the professors let you stop by during their office hours and discuss just about anything. One Spanish and English double major affirmed, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter whether a class is lecture or discussion based, because either way you\u2019re guaranteed to learn something.\u201d<\/p>\n
The schools\u2019 evaluations are based on institutional data, feedback from current students, visits to the schools, opinions of independent college counselors and other factors. <\/p>\n
The Princeton Review is a New York-based education services company known for its education, admission and test-prep services. <\/p>\n
Transylvania, founded in 1780, is the nation\u2019s sixteenth oldest institution of higher learning and is consistently ranked in national publications as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014Transylvania University is listed in The Princeton Review\u2019s \u201cThe Best 378 Colleges,\u201d a ranking that includes the top 15 percent of America\u2019s 2,500 four-year colleges. \u201cTransylvania University offers outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our choice of schools for the book,\u201d said Robert Franek, Princeton Review’s senior vice president and author of “The Best 378 Colleges.\u201d The book\u2019s two-page profile of Transylvania includes comments from students surveyed for the book. Students described Transylvania as an \u201cextremely close-knit campus\u201d with a \u201cstrong sense of community.\u201d They said that Transylvania strives to provide \u201ca holistic educational experience where one can grow intellectually and academically while participating in a vibrant social community.\u201d Other students said that they work \u201cridiculously hard,\u201d but that the professors let you stop by during their office hours and discuss just about anything. One Spanish and English double major affirmed, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter whether a class is lecture or discussion based, because either way you\u2019re guaranteed to learn something.\u201d The schools\u2019 evaluations are based on institutional data, feedback from current students, visits to the schools, opinions of independent college counselors and other factors. The Princeton Review is a New York-based education services company known for its education, admission and test-prep services. Transylvania, founded in 1780, is the nation\u2019s sixteenth oldest institution of higher learning and is consistently ranked in national publications as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"feeds":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n