In the latest edition of the Princeton Review’s The Best 389 Colleges, Hampden-Sydney receives high recognition in numerous categories. The annual college guide evaluates the student experience at colleges nationwide, ranking institutions in categories such as student government engagement, career service quality, community service engagement, and intramural sports involvement.
Hampden-Sydney made the top 10 in the following five categories:
No. 1 – Most Active Student Government
No. 2 – Best College Library
No. 3 – Most Politically Active Students
No. 6 – Friendliest Students
No. 9 – Student Love Their School Teams
And it doesn’t stop there. Hampden-Sydney made the top 20 in the following lists:
No. 12 – Best Career Services
No. 12 – Happiest Students
No. 12 – Lots of Greek Life
No. 13 – Best College Newspaper
No. 14 – Their Students Love These Colleges
No. 18 – Most Engaged in Community Service
No. 19 – Lots of Race/Class Interaction
Hampden-Sydney is a common name in many of these categories such as “Most Active Student Government,” “Best College Library,” “Best Career Services,” and “Students Love Their School Teams.” This year’s rankings also feature the College in new categories including “Friendliest Students” and “Most Engaged in Community Service.”
In addition to these rankings, the College continues to score highly in the Princeton Review's "Best Value Colleges" list, which was released in the spring and ranks the College at No. 3 among “Best Alumni Networks” and No. 8 among “Best Schools for Internships” for private colleges.
While praising the exceptional Rhetoric Program, in-depth learning experience, Ferguson Career Center, and alumni network, the Princeton Review’s full Hampden-Sydney profile gives a glimpse into the power of the Hampden-Sydney experience through student quotes:
“The college is ‘one of the best places to develop one’s ability to think’ and to ‘learn how a different lens of study changes how one digests and processes information.’”
“The ‘career center and alumni connections are…outstanding’ and ‘having alumni invested in you and your future really makes a difference.’”
“The student-professor connection at Hampden-Sydney is ‘the real deal,’ and students can tell that faculty ‘invest so much time and care into their students…it is clear that they became professors to teach.’”
Thanks to Hampden-Sydney’s dedicated faculty, staff, alumni, and students, the national profile of the College continues to attract and impress future generations of Tigers. Read the full profile of Hampden-Sydney on the Princeton Review’s website.