UMW Gets High Marks from Princeton Review

The University of Mary Washington has been named to the Princeton Review’s 2012 edition of The Best 376 Colleges. The Princeton Review is a New York City-based education services company that annually publishes guidebooks ranking colleges, business and law schools. 

This is the second time is as many weeks that UMW has received accolades from respected college guides. For the second year in a row, the University of Mary Washington was be

The annual college guide includes detailed profiles of the colleges with school rating scores in eight categories, including admissions selectivity, academics and quality of life.

In its profile, the Princeton Review calls UMW “‘a lovely state university that gives you a private school education.’”

“Students laud ‘the small student body and class sizes,’” and “believe UMW is ‘a hidden jewel that delivers on a historical campus,’” the guide states. “UMW is ‘a small school with a big heart’ and ‘is a tight-knit community with an atmosphere that pushes you to your potential.’”

The University of Mary Washington has received national recognition through consistently high rankings in selective publications and many college guidebooks, including most recently the 2012 Fiske Guide to Colleges. The university has also received been recognized in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, U.S. News & World Report and Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges and Universities.