California State University, Stanislaus featured in new edition of the Princeton Review's "The Best 373 Colleges"

California State University, Stanislaus receives high praise for its student retention and graduation rates in the new edition of The Princeton Review, which includes the University among its list of the best institutions in the country for undergraduate education.
 
CSU Stanislaus is also one of 120 colleges to be included in The Princeton Review’s “Best in the West” section. 
 
“Being named among the top universities in the country for five years in a row is a testament to the student dedication, academic excellence, and passionate faculty and staff at CSU Stanislaus,” said University President Hamid Shirvani.  “We are all committed to serving our students by supporting their creativity and challenging them intellectually.”
 
Only about 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges and two Canadian colleges are profiled in the book, which is The Princeton Review's flagship college guide.
 
The guide gives a glowing review of the University’s academic services, environmental policies, and “beautiful and friendly” campus.  It also points out that CSU Stanislaus was one of 12 public universities in the nation to be recognized by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities for “demonstrating exceptional performance in retention and graduation rates.” More than 50 percent of CSU Stanislaus students graduate in six years or less.
 
“Student success is facilitated by a dense network of resources including consistent advising, a strong first-year program, frequent and meaningful contact with professors, and supportive staff and administrators,” according to The Princeton Review.
 
"We commend CSU Stanislaus for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our selection of schools for the book,” said Robert Franek, Princeton Review's Senior VP / Publishing and author of “The Best 373 Colleges.”  “Our choices are based on institutional data we collect about schools, our visits to schools over the years, feedback we gather from students attending the schools, and the opinions of our staff and our 28-member National College Counselor Advisory Board.  We also work to keep a wide representation of colleges in the book by region, size, selectivity and character."

The Princeton Review’s profile of CSU Stanislaus.PDF