The honor is bestowed upon colleges with an exceptional commitment to sustainability based on their academic offerings and career preparation for students, campus policies, initiatives, and activities.
Elon University has been named one of the nation’s top universities demonstrating “a strong commitment to sustainable practices,” by The Princeton Review.
“The Princeton Review’s Guide to 361 Green Colleges: 2016 Edition” profiles colleges with the most exceptional commitments to sustainability based on their academic offerings and career preparation for students, campus policies, initiatives, and activities. The profiles in the guide give college applicants information about each school’s admission requirements, cost and financial aid, as well as student body facts and stats. This is the seventh year in a row that Elon has been included in The Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges.
The Princeton Review chose schools based on data from a 2015-16 survey of hundreds of four-year colleges concerning the schools’ commitments to the environment and sustainability. Inclusion in the publication required a ‘green rating’ of 80 or more. Elon earned a ‘green rating’ of 93 out of a possible 99.
Published Oct. 4, the 160-page guide is the only free, annually updated downloadable guide to green colleges. Princeton Review officials lauded the schools that made the list for their commitment to the environment.
“We strongly recommend Elon University and the other fine colleges in this guide to the many environmentally-minded students who seek to study and live at green colleges,” said The Princeton Review’s Robert Franek, senior vice president and publisher. “Among more than 10,000 teens and parents who participated in our 2016 College Hopes & Worries Survey, 61 percent told us that having information about a school’s commitment to the environment would influence their decision to apply to or attend the college.”