NYC Colleges Are Sober, Dissatisfy Students With Financial Aid, and Have Dodgeball Targets

The Princeton Review released its annual "The Best 366 Colleges" rankings, and NYC college schools make some interesting showings. The New School is number 1 for "Best College Town" (Barnard, Columbia, and NYU are also in the top 10), while Queens College is the third most sober.

Here are some rankings for some area schools:
Barnard: Best Quality of Life (16), Great College Towns (2), Nobody Plays Intramural Sports (18)
Brooklyn College: Professor Get Low Marks (11), Professors Make Themselves Scarce (13)
Columbia: Toughest to Get Into (7), Best College Library (8), Great College Town (6)
Hunter: Long Lines and Red Tape (18), Diverse Student Population (8), Campus is Tiny, Unsightly or Both (4)
NYU: Students Dissatisfied with Financial Aid (1), Gay Community Accepted (2), Intercollegiate Sports Unpopular or Nonexistant (11), Nobody Plays Intramural Sports (5), Dodgeball Targets (7), Long Lines and Red Tape (8), Professors Make Themselves Scarce (14)
New School: Class Discussions Encouraged (3), Long Lines and Red Tape (2), Gay Community Accepted (13), Lots of Race/Class Interaction (19), Students Ignore God on a Regular Basis (6), Most Politically Active (7), Nobody Plays Intramural Sports (2), Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians (10), Dodgeball Targets (1), Most Politically Active (7)
Queens College: Election? What Election? (13), Don't Inhale (12), Scotch and Soda, Hold the Scotch (3)
Wagner College: This is a Library? (14), Best College Theater (2), Most Beautiful Campus (6)

You can check out all the rankings at PrincetonReview.com (you need to register, but it's free). And the biggest party school? West Virginia.

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By Jen Chung in News on August 21, 2007 4:04 PM

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guest

I agree completely. I mean, I go to NYU and I still don't get it. It just isn't worth the price.

guest

"Guest" asked "How does Columbia get great college town, but NYU and New School are off the list?"

What I want to know is how Barnard got 2nd for college town and Columbia got 6th when they're separated by the width of Broadway!! Is the West side of the street inherently better than the East side?

JRod5417

I have to agree I am disappointed with no mention of Fordham. What's not to like about Jesuits in Lincoln Center?

guest

hey matty - thanks for the update on college education. I guess Wagner college and Queens college are bastions of liberal hipness and/or top ranked institutions. And as for the Ball State/IU analogy -- why not join the Indiana-ist website -- who the hell makes an Indiana-style analogy in New York?

guest

[19], as long as there are rich suburban Irish kids that want to drink, Fordham will matter.

guest

Does Fordham really matter? that's like saying Ball State matter when there's IU.

There's always gonna be lower tier colleges.

matty

and as for the smaller nyc colleges she mentions them to sound like she's liberal.

matty

i think the reason that fordham wasn't included is that the gothamist - also known as ms. chung - are really into "high" academic colleges and the people whom the graduates marry.

Fordham does not fit into this equation. I mean did she mention St. John's????

and coupons. she loves coupons.

guest

The US News ratings are a farce. Penn at 5? Please. They weren't top ten a few years ago and everyone knows they are among the most aggressive cheaters and manipulators with their data.

Nick S

wow. brooklyn collee really got the shit kicked out of them. maybe they'll stop putting the "most academic bang for your buck" quote from princeton review on all of their material now.

guest

C'mon Gothamist, this is a rare miss! How could you not include Fordham University? It's the Hottest Catholic School in America - plus its got a campus at Lincoln Center AND a majestic campus at Rose Hill in the Bronx. Fordham even took the tagline: New York is my campus, Fordham is my school

guest

Hey Gothamist,

Way to completely snub Fordham from your consideration... maybe you haven't seen the latest edition of Newsweek because it is one of the 25 Hottest Colleges & Universities in the nation. Sorry NYU & Columbia!

schmod

I've never really understood why NYU is as popular or renowned as it is...

guest

[10], you're missing a period at the end of your second sentence.

guest

I guess Jen meant 'party' school. the percentage of her posts with typos in them is appalling. I'm not even TRYING to see typos and I notice tons, so I can only imagine all her posts have them

guest

WVU is the biggest part school part [what]?

guest

School of Visual Arts?

guest

was fordham university some how moved out of the city? last time i checked (five minute ago when i left campus), it's still there and preformed quite well in the recent slew of collegiate rankings.