MSOE named a 2006 Best College in the Midwestern Region by The Princeton Review
| Published: 09/07/2005 |
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Milwaukee School of Engineering is one of 158 schools on The Princeton Review's Best Colleges: Region by Region list, receiving its Best in the Midwest designation. The Princeton Review believes these schools uphold the standards of its Best Midwestern College distinction and provide students with a wide breadth of excellent schools to consider.
The Princeton Review used the following method and criteria for this designation: The publication divided the country into four regions and identified 644 colleges they feel stand out as academically excellent institutions of higher learning.
"We avoided using any sort of mathematical calculations or formulas to determine which colleges and universities to include in this feature. For each region, we aim to provide an inclusive mix of colleges: large and small, public and private, all-male and all-female, historically black colleges and universities, science and technology-focused institutions, nontraditional colleges, highly selective and those with virtually open-door admissions, great buys and the wildly expensive. Though not every college included will appeal to every student, all are institutions well worth considering.
"Each college we chose this year had to meet two criteria. First, they had to meet our standards for academic excellence within their region. And second, we had to be able to survey their students anonymously, either through our online survey, or through our paper survey, which we distribute and collect during an on-campus visit. In many instances, we are able to contact students and collect on our own enough student surveys to produce a valid opinion-driven profile for a particular college. But oftentimes we rely on a college's administrators to help us get in contact with their students. Therefore, if some excellent colleges seem conspicuously absent from our list, it may be the result of unwillingness on the part of administrators to assist us and our inability to collect a sufficient number of student surveys from the school through other means."