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Westminster Wins 3 Awards from Princeton Review
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -- Westminster College is one of the country's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. Included in the recognition is Westminster's student radio station, WWNW 88.9FM, ranked seventh as one of the "Best College Radio Stations" for the sixth straight year.
And, the college made the "Town-Gown Relations are Great" category.
The education services company features Westminster in the recently issued 2014 edition of its annual college guide, "The Best 378 Colleges." Only 15% of America's 2,500 four-year colleges are in the book.
Students praised the "extremely accessible and helpful" professors, supportive classmates, great career services, safe campus, and opportunities for involvement, the Princeton Review reported, and quoted one student, "Contrary to popular belief, Westminster College, not Disneyland, is the happiest place on earth."
The editors of the guide noted: "Westminster College has remained intent on crafting a personalized learning process for students, with the aim of turning out well-rounded individuals who can live and affect the world in a positive way. The challenging liberal arts curriculum provides a broad foundation for academic study, and the school heavily stresses the application of what's learned by pushing students to prepare themselves for the future using real-life simulations. … The administration always keeps the interests of the students in mind, the classes are small, and students get the attention they need. Westminster runs on personal relationships between faculty and students, and even the janitor knows your name."
Selections are based on data collected in annual institutional surveys as well as comments from staff, the publication's 35-member National Counselor Advisory Board, personal visits to schools “and the wide range of feedback we get from our surveys of students attending these schools,” said Robert Franek, senior vice president of publishing and author of "The Best 378 Colleges."
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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