Flagler College named one of Princeton Review's 'Best 378 Colleges'

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (08/06/2013)(readMedia)-- Flagler College is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the school in the new 2014 edition of its annual college guide, "The Best 378 Colleges."

Annually published since 1992, "The Best 378 Colleges" is one of 150 Princeton Review books published by Random House. In addition to its profiles of the colleges, the book includes lists of "Great Schools for 20 Popular College Majors" and of "150 Best Value Colleges" plus other resources.

"Flagler College offers outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our choice of schools for the book," says Robert Franek, the book's author and Princeton Review Senior VP / Publisher. "We base our selections primarily on data we obtain in our annual institutional data surveys. We also take into account input we get from our staff, our 35-member National College Counselor Advisory Board, our personal visits to schools, and the wide range of feedback we get from our surveys of students attending these schools."

The Princeton Review's book goes on sale Aug. 6.

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Flagler College is an independent, four-year, comprehensive baccalaureate college located in St. Augustine, Fla. The college offers 29 majors, 34 minors and two pre-professional programs, the largest majors being business, education and communication. Small by intent, Flagler College has an enrollment of about 2,500 students, as well as a satellite campus at Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, Fla. U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review regularly feature Flagler as a college that offers quality education at a relatively low cost. A Flagler education is less than half the cost of similar private colleges, and competitive with many state universities. A relatively young institution (founded in 1968), Flagler College is also noted for its historic beauty. The centerpiece of the campus is the former Hotel Ponce de Leon, a grand resort built in 1888 by Henry M. Flagler, industrialist, railroad pioneer and co-founder of Standard Oil. The Ponce has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. For more on Flagler College, visit www.flagler.edu.