Princeton Review: DePauw one of best colleges for 2022

Monday, September 6, 2021

DePauw University once again has been listed by The Princeton Review as one of the best schools in America.

The organization’s 2022 college guide, “Best 387 Colleges,” was published Aug. 31.

About 14 percent of America’s 2,800 four-year colleges are profiled in the guide, which is based on data collected from administrators about their institutions’ academic offerings and from surveys of 154,000 students who attend the featured institutions and rate various aspects of their experiences.

Surveyed DePauw students reported that internships are widely available; class discussions are encouraged; alumni are active on campus; and fraternities and sororities are popular.

“DePauw University has done an incredible job of building a ‘collaborative community’ that prioritizes the needs and desires of its undergraduates,” the guide says. “Whether it’s cultivating a ‘truly caring faculty,’ being wholly ‘receptive to student feedback’ or developing ‘excellent study abroad options,’ students here are set up to thrive.”

The guide reports that professors “tend to be “knowledgeable, interesting, empathetic and invested.” The school “emphasizes (a) well-rounded education” and “classes are so small students are able to really engage in discussion.”

A student reported that DePauw’s student body exhibits diversity in ethnicity, sexuality, sexual orientation/identity, thoughts, political viewpoints and country of origin/nationality. Another described classmates as “open-minded individuals who are eager to learn about the world around them.” Still another student said, “My peers are often unafraid to stand up for what they believe to be right, and actively work to better the DePauw community.”

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  • Now that is an honor!!!!

    -- Posted by beg on Mon, Sep 6, 2021, at 8:01 PM
  • Reads like an absolute liberal paradise! And with the two million dollar grant to increase psychiatric and other mental health services for DePauw's growing mental health problems as reported in the March 25 BANNER, every snowflake worldwide should be drawn to DePauw. So why are the classes so small? Doesn't make sense.

    -- Posted by Prince of Stardust Hills on Thu, Sep 9, 2021, at 7:47 AM
  • POSH--Are you jealous of the students? Or the curriculum? Why are you so down with DePauw? If you have gone to an university like IU then you would understand the small class concept.

    Just stay on your couch, or recliner, drink your beer and try to think happy thoughts.

    -- Posted by donantonio on Thu, Sep 9, 2021, at 8:28 PM
  • Donny, thanks for your attention. I wasn't expecting you but was, instead, teasingly/playfully fishing for a friend's comment. Still, your delightful response makes me feel like a contented troll! Back to my couch, beer, and happy thoughts.

    -- Posted by Prince of Stardust Hills on Thu, Sep 9, 2021, at 10:13 PM
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    POSH - it appears you have fallen and are stuck under the booth at McD's. Put down the Big Mac, remove your tin foil hat and please climb out. Britney needs you....

    -- Posted by RSOTS on Fri, Sep 10, 2021, at 12:39 PM
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    I can't wait for the Muslim Student Association and the GLBT Student Association to have a mixer.

    That should be a blast.

    We'll likely be hearing them from the rooftops.

    As for the rankings... congratulations, I guess.

    As a school, they do what they do well.

    And they are diverse... they even have token Republicans. Or at least they used to.

    Anyone know if the Young Republicans are still over there? Or did they get booted in the name of diversity?

    -- Posted by dreadpirateroberts on Fri, Sep 10, 2021, at 6:16 PM
  • For POSH--"Don" is not a name. It is a "title".

    A lack of education on your part clearly shows through.

    -- Posted by donantonio on Fri, Sep 10, 2021, at 8:28 PM
  • Thanks Donny! I didn't know that, and believe me, I REALLY care about you and your title.

    And yes, compared to you, I'm CLEARLY undereducated. That's why I actively read the BANNER comments, hoping to glean a great deal more from your intelligent words of wisdom and general insights.

    Donny, I'm starting to consider you a real friend, not perhaps as important to me as RSOTS, but you're gaining.

    -- Posted by Prince of Stardust Hills on Fri, Sep 10, 2021, at 8:56 PM
  • NSLLP all the way!!!!

    -- Posted by beg on Fri, Sep 10, 2021, at 11:18 PM
  • Or did they get booted in the name of diversity?

    the perfect sentence for defining the NSLLP definition of tolerance. Heck, diversity also.

    -- Posted by beg on Sat, Sep 11, 2021, at 1:17 PM
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