For the 10th consecutive year, Pitt-Bradford has been recognized as one of the best colleges in the Northeast by
The Princeton Review.
“The
selection as one of the best colleges in the Northeast for a 10th consecutive
year, just as we’re closing in on our 50th anniversary as a regional
college of the University of Pittsburgh, underscores how far we’ve come and how
much we’ve accomplished over the years,” said Dr. Livingston Alexander,
Pitt-Bradford president. “This recognition is significant because, in
selecting institutions for its ‘Best Colleges’ list, it focuses on input from
students. The comments from students demonstrate how much they value the
academically challenging and personalized environment we create for them at
Pitt-Bradford.”
The
Princeton Review selected Pitt-Bradford as one of 226 institutions in its “Best
in the Northeast” section of its website feature “2014 Best Colleges: Region by
Region.”
Besides
Pennsylvania, the colleges and universities chosen for the list are located in
10 states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont, and the District of
Columbia.
Robert
Franek, Princeton Review's senior vice president and publisher, said, “We chose
these as our ‘regional best’ colleges mainly for their excellent academic
programs. From several hundred schools in each region, we winnowed our list
based on institutional data we collected directly from the schools, our visits
to schools over the years, and the opinions of our staff, plus college
counselors and advisors whose recommendations we invite. We also take into
account what students at the schools reported to us.”
Students
rated their own schools on several issues -- from the accessibility of their
professors to quality of the campus food.
When
surveyed, Pitt-Bradford students made many positive comments about the
university’s professors and academic programs. Students said the small class
sizes were the university’s major strength and that the professors are willing
to help and are “extremely well versed in their specific fields of study.”
Students
also responded positively about the student body, which they said was friendly,
welcoming and accepting of all types. “At Pitt-Bradford you are a person with a
name, a face, and people are going to know you; you’re not a number,” one
student said. Another student added,
“I’ve learned that all you really have to do is introduce yourself and find
something in common with them.”
Pitt-Bradford’s
personalized campus was cited in another national accolade in January of this
year when the college research website TheBestColleges.com named it one of the
10 best regional campuses in the United States.
“Professors
are considered students’ friends, going above and beyond to facilitate learning
by extending office hours, giving out their private cell phone numbers and
more,” according to the article.
Additionally,
last year, The Princeton Review named Pitt-Bradford a Best Value College, one
of only eight Pennsylvania colleges named to the list that year.
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