47 NY Colleges Among Nation's 'Best' In 2023: Princeton Review

NEW YORK — Forty-seven colleges in New York are among the nation’s 388 best, according to The Princeton Review’s “Best 388 Colleges: 2023 Edition.”

The 388 colleges on the list aren’t ranked; however, the top 25 colleges were ranked in 50 categories designed to help guide those making college choices to institutions that best fit their academic and personal needs.

For the first time, the categories include “green matters,” which names the colleges students give high marks for their commitment to the environment and conservation on their campuses.

The New York colleges that made the 31st annual list are:

• Alfred University, Alfred
• Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
• Barnard College, New York
• City College of New York of The City University of New York, New York
• City University of New York—Baruch College, New York
• City University of New York—Brooklyn College, Brooklyn
• City University of New York—Hunter College, New York
• City University of New York—Queens College, Queens
• Clarkson University, Potsdam
• Colgate University, Hamilton
• Columbia University, New York
• The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York
• Cornell University, Ithaca
• Elmira College, Elmira
• Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School, New York
• Fordham University, Bronx
• Hamilton College, Clinton
• Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva
• Hofstra University, Hempstead
• Ithaca College, Ithaca
• Le Moyne College, Syracuse
• Manhattan College, Riverdale
• Manhattanville College, Purchase
• Marist College, Poughkeepsie
• Nazareth College, Rochester
• New York University, New York
• Pace University, New York
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
• Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester
• Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville
• Siena College, Loudonville
• Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
• St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure
• St. John's University (NY), Queens
• St. Lawrence University, Canton
• State University of New York - Binghamton University, Binghamton
• State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
• State University of New York - Purchase College, Purchase
• State University of New York - Stony Brook University, Stony Brook
• State University of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo
• Syracuse University, Syracuse
• Union College (NY), Schenectady
• United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point
• United States Military Academy, West Point
• University of Rochester, Rochester
• Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
• Webb Institute, Glen Cove

Click through to the colleges and universities to see where they excelled.

The list is based on 160,000 student surveys that asked students to rate their professors, administrators, school services and other aspects of life at their colleges and to report on their campus and community experiences. Read more about the methodology.

This year, The Princeton Review expanded the number of colleges ranked for excellence in the categories to 25 from 20, and also dropped the “schools by type” ranking titled Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians, and its inverse list, Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution.

The Princeton Review also dropped its Party Schools and Stone-Cold Sober Schools this year.