The Best 382 Colleges, 2018 Edition: Everything You Need to Make the Right College Choice

by The Princeton Review

NO ONE KNOWS COLLEGES LIKE THE PRINCETON REVIEW!

The Princeton Review's college rankings started in 1992 with surveys from 30,000 students. Over 25 years and more than a million student surveys later, we stand by our claim that there is no single "best" college, only the best college for you... and that this is the book that will help you find it!

What Makes THE BEST 382 COLLEGES the Most Popular College Guide?

STRAIGHT FROM STUDENTS TO YOU
- 382 in-depth school profiles based on candid feedback from 137,000 students, covering academics, administration, campus life, and financial aid
- Insights on unique college character, social scene, and more

RANKING LISTS & RATINGS SCORES
- Lists of the top 20 colleges in 62 categories based on students' opinions of academics, campus life, facilities, and much more
- Ratings for every school on Financial Aid, Selectivity, and Quality of Life
- Bonus list of the 200 "best-value" schools featured in Colleges That Pay You Back

DETAILED ADMISSIONS INFORMATION
- The "Inside Word" on competitive applications, test scores, tuition, and average indebtedness
- Comprehensive information on selectivity, freshman profiles, and application deadlines at each school

What the media is saying about The Princeton Review's Best Colleges guide:
"The most efficient of the college guidebooks. Has entertaining profiles larded with quotes from students."-Rolling Stone

"The offbeat indexes, along with the chattily written descriptions of each school, provide a colorful picture of each campus." -The New York Times

"A great book.... It's a bargain." -CNN

"Our favorite college guidebook." -Seventeen

"Provides the kind of feedback students would get from other students in a campus visit." -USA Today

880 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2015

About the author

The Princeton Review is an education services company providing tutoring, test preparation and admission resources for students. It was founded in 1981. and since that time has worked with over 400 million students.

Reviews

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good reference for anyone wanting to get a sense of the 380 colleges described here. Many interesting lists (best & worst of...) based on surveys of 136,000 students attending the 380 schools. Additional information is provided by school administrators and interviews of students at the various campuses. (Sidebar information provides statistics under the general categories of Campus Life, Students, Survey Says..., Academics, Selectivity, Freshman Profile, Deadlines, Applicants Also Look At (i.e. other schools applied to) and Financial Facts.)

The many good statistics and personal snapshots of the schools provide a helpful primer to start the school search list. This isn’t a book about preparing the college application process, very little attention is given to what steps should be taken while in high school. This is more about telling you a lot about the various colleges detailed in the book.

Whether the prospective student is or isn’t focused on any particular schools this book is well worth a look. Most libraries in my area have the latest or prior year edition so I’d check there before looking for it on Amazon.

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great resource as we begin to consider which schools to consider

[Chrissy DeMarco · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a weird book to have read, I know. I'm in the process of figuring out what college I want to attend, so I read this entire book, cover to cover. I usually wouldn't include this as a book I've read on goodreads, but since it took up 2 months of reading for me I figured that I should. I also have 5 books left to read in this year, with only about 10 days to go, so I need all the help I can get. This is also 800ish pages so I figure it counts! Also, this was such an informative book, I was surprised with how easy it was to comprehend and how much I liked the information provided about each school.