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BYU ranked first on Princeton Review’s “Cancel the Keg” list for the second time in three years, according to Tuesday’s release of the company’s new edition of “The Best 390 Colleges.”
BYU also finished first for best library and landed on 14 other lists based on surveys of 168,000 students by the Princeton Review. University of Utah students rated themselves the second-least politically active students and fifth for best athletic facilities.
All of the rankings that include BYU and Utah are listed below.
The “Cancel the Keg” category is based on student responses to the question, “How widely is beer used at your school?”
“The Best 390 Colleges” is designed to help students learn more about schools they are considering for higher education. The book profiles each of the schools and includes data provided by the colleges and universities and lists based on data and analysis.
The college guide also annually asks students to rate their colleges on dozens of topics and report on their experiences at them. The Princeton Review uses the 89-question survey to rank colleges and universities in categories like financial aid, campus food and friendliest students.
“The colleges we profile in our book are truly a select group: they constitute about 15% of America’s four-year institutions,” Princeton Review editor-in-chief Rob Franek said. “We chose them primarily based on our high opinion of their academic offerings.”
BYU is the flagship university of the Church Educational System of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Other CES schools were not included in the book or its ranking lists.
The book contained data obtained from the schools for comparisons.
For example, BYU reported 11,006 applicants and an acceptance rate of 69%. Utah reported 22,996 applicants and an acceptance rate of 87%.
The average high school GPA of BYU students was 3.90 and Utah’s was 3.68. The 25th-75th percentile ACT composite scores of enrolled students was 28-32 for BYU and 22-29 for Utah.
1. BYU in Provo, Utah. (32,221)
2. College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri. (1,508)
3. City University of New York-Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, N.Y. (11,313)
4. Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. (2,588)
5. City University of New York-Hunter College in New York, N.Y. (18,758)
6. Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. (2,372)
7. City University of New York-Baruch College (15,859)
8. CUNY City College of New York in New York, N.Y. (12,351)
9. Wheaton College of Wheaton, Illinois. (2,119)
10. California State University, Stanislaus in Turlock, California. (8,670)
BYU ranked in the top 25 of 16 Princeton Review lists:
Utah ranked in the top 50 of seven Princeton Review lists.
Utah also ranked highly on two other data-driven lists separate from student surveys.
Top undergraduate video game design schools in the West: No. 2. USC was No. 1. The ranking was based on institutional survey data, including quality of lab facilities, faculty credentials, career outcomes and more.
Top undergraduate entrepreneurship studies in the West: No. 2. Washington was No. 1. The rating was based in part on institutional survey data, including academic offerings, experiential learning opportunities and career outcomes.
Westminster made the book as one of the Princeton Review’s Best 390 Colleges. The school was not included in any of the 50 student-survey ranking lists.
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