“Miami University offers outstanding academics, which is the chief reason we selected it for the book,” said Rob Franek, Princeton Review’s senior vice president/publisher and author of “The Best 379 Colleges.”
The ratings are scores on a scale of 60 to 99. Miami’s ratings include:
• 90 for quality of life,
• 85 for academics,
• 89 for admissions selectivity
• 90 for its “green” rating (a measure of school’s commitment to the environment in its policies, practices and education programs).
Miami spokeswoman Carole Johnson said, “It affirms what we already know, which is that our academic work is outstanding and solid, and that’s being recognized.”
The schools in the guidebook are not ranked. Universities are rated in eight categories The Princeton Review tallies based on data it collected during the 2013-2014 academic year and from its survey of 130,000 students.
Miami had also been listed as the most expensive public college in the nation according to rankings released in July by the U.S. Department of Education. Each year he department’s College Affordability and Transparency Center releases its report on colleges that have the highest and lowest tuition. The latest report uses 2011 figures.
The ranking of highest net prices includes not only tuition, but other costs such as books and room-and-board fees, minus grant and scholarship aid. Miami tops that list with a total cost of $24,674. In Ohio, the Ohio State University ranks second at $19,998, and University of Cincinnati ranks third in the state at $19,045.
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