For fourth year, Shepherd named a Best in the Southeast college by Princeton Review's Web site

ISSUED: 7 August 2008
MEDIA CONTACT: Valerie Owens
(For fourth year, Shepherd named a Best in the Southeast college by Princeton Review's Web site)

Shepherdstown, WV--For the fourth year in a row, Shepherd University has been named one of the best colleges and universities in the southeast according to the Princeton Review's Web site. The New York City-based education services company selected Shepherd as one of 139 institutions it recommends in its "Best in the Southeast" section on its Web site feature 2009 Best Colleges: Region by Region.

The 139 colleges the Princeton Review chose for its Best in the Southeast designation are located in 12 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The Princeton Review also designated 212 colleges in the Northeast, 120 in the West, and 159 in the Midwest as best in their locales on the company's 2009 Best Colleges: Region by Region section on its site. The 630 colleges named regional bests represent only about 25 percent (one out of four) of the nation's 2,500 four-year colleges.

According to Robert Franek, the Princeton Review's vice president of publishing, "We commend all of the schools we name this year as our 'regional best' colleges primarily for their excellent academic programs. We selected them based on institutional data we collected from several hundred schools in each region, 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 each school's customers--their students--report to us about their campus experiences at their schools on our 80-question student survey. Finally, we work to have our annual roster of 'regional best' colleges present a range of institutions in each region that varies by size, selectivity, character, and locale."

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