Lyon named one of Princeton Review’s ‘Best Southeastern Colleges’

August 22, 2006

The Princeton Review has again named Lyon College a “Best Southeastern College” based on results from its “Best 361 Colleges – 2007” survey. Lyon has received this distinction for the past three years.

The Review’s survey asked students questions about their school’s academics, campus life and student body. This year’s rankings are based on surveys of over 115,000 students.

Lyon College is one of 146 schools receiving the Best in the Southeast designation., and one of only four Arkansas institutions on the list. The others are Harding University, Hendrix College and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

This year, student opinion data from a total of 656 schools is featured on the "Best Colleges: Region by Region" section of PrincetonReview.com (www.princetonreview.com/college/research/regional).

“We believe these schools uphold the standards of our Best Southeastern College distinction and provide students with a wide breadth of excellent schools to consider,” said Robert Franek, author of “Best 361 Colleges” at The Princeton Review.

The Princeton Review website says: “Our goal is simple: to identify some of the colleges and universities that we feel stand out within each region.”

The Princeton Review is a New York City-based company known for its test prep courses, education services and books. It has conducted the survey since 1992, when it first published its annual “Best Colleges” – the only guide offering college rankings based on student ratings of their schools and reports of their experiences at them.