September 20, 2010

Wentworth Named a "Best in the Northeast" College by The Princeton Review For Fourth Consecutive Year

Boston, MA - September 20, 2010 - Wentworth Institute of Technology is one of 218 institutions The Princeton Review recommends in its "Best in the Northeast" section of its website feature, "2011 Best Colleges: Region by Region." The Institute has received this distinction for the fourth consecutive year, and the education services company also profiled Wentworth in its book, The Best Northeastern Colleges: 2011 Edition. The 623 colleges named "regional best(s)" represent about 25 percent of the nation's 2,500 four-year colleges.

In the profile, students offered feedback on academics, recognizing Wentworth for its "hands-on training inside and outside the classroom," practicality, and its focus on cooperative education and career preparation, noting that "there are a lot of programs intended to help students network in their fields and know where they are heading."

Wentworth professors are recognized for bringing "industry expertise to the classroom" and adding value to the learning environment. The profile states, "Many of the professors have valuable, real work experience in their fields, and use that to better teach their classes." Students also reported that "compact and small class sizes create a much better learning environment, and extensive lab experiences create students who are very practical in their related professions."

Princeton Review's senior vice president of publishing, Robert Franek, recommends Wentworth and other schools as a "regional best" primarily for their excellent academic programs. In explaining the selection process, Franek explains the list is winnowed from several hundred schools in each region "based on institutional data we collected directly from the schools, our visits to schools over the years, and the opinions of independent and high school-based college advisors whose recommendations we invite. We also take into account what students at the schools reported to us about their campus experiences on our 80-question student survey."

The Princeton Review survey for this project asks students to rate their own schools on several issues-from the accessibility of their professors to quality of the campus food-and answer questions about themselves, their fellow students, and their campus life.

The 218 institutions The Princeton Review chose for its "Best Northeastern Colleges" book and website list are located in eleven states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont, and the District of Columbia.