Lebanon Valley College Makes National Rankings

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ANNVILLE, PA (09/04/2012)(readMedia)-- For the 10th consecutive year, Lebanon Valley College has been named one of the best colleges in the Northeast according to The Princeton Review. Lebanon Valley College is one of 220 institutions The Princeton Review recommends in its "Best in the Northeast" section of its "2013 Best Colleges: Region by Region" website at www.PrincetonReview.com. LVC was also once again named to Forbes' list of "America's Top Colleges."

The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review asks current students to rate their own schools by addressing several issues-from the accessibility of their professors to the quality of campus food-and answering questions about their experiences, their fellow students, and campus life. LVC students responded with statements ranging from "LVC is a challenging school that strives to provide an excellent education and college experience for its students," to LVC offers "an opportunity to study with some of the best professors and fellow students in an intimate environment." One English major said "I love having the opportunity to closely work with a professor who knows your name, interests, and abilities." Colleges selected had to meet standards for academic excellence within that school's respective region while allowing The Princeton Review to survey anonymously its students.

The 220 colleges chosen for the "Best in the Northeast" list are located in 11 states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont, and the District of Columbia.

Forbes

Lebanon Valley College also repeated as a member of Forbes' list of "America's Top Colleges" and list of "Best Private Colleges." According to their website, "The rankings, which are compiled exclusively for Forbes by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for College Affordability and Productivity, focus on the things that matter the most to students: quality of teaching, great career prospects, high graduation rates and low-levels of debt."

The rankings are based on five general categories: post-graduate success, which evaluates alumni pay and prominence; student satisfaction, which includes professor evaluations and freshman to sophomore year retention rates; debt, which penalizes schools for high student debt loads and default rates; four-year graduation rate; and competitive awards, which rewards schools whose students win prestigious scholarships and fellowships like the Rhodes, the Marshall, and the Fulbright, or go on to earn a Ph.D.

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Lebanon Valley College™ in Annville, Pa., welcomes 1,630 full-time undergraduates studying more than 30 majors, as well as self-designed majors. Founded in 1866, LVC has graduate programs in physical therapy, business, and music and science education. Annville is 15 minutes east of Hershey and 35 minutes east of Harrisburg; Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore are within two hours. On the web at www.lvc.edu.