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As part of the University's profile, students described the Charger community as "caring and considerate" and said among its signature majors are many "amazing programs you cannot get anywhere else."
September 6, 2024
For the ninth consecutive year, The Princeton Review has featured the University of New Haven in its annual guidebook spotlighting the country's best colleges and universities, which serves as a go-to resource for students, families, and high school guidance counselors.
Only about 15 percent of the four-year colleges in the United States are profiled in The Princeton Review's 2025 guidebook, The Best 390 Colleges.
"Being recognized by The Princeton Review among the best colleges and universities in the country is testament to our unwavering University-wide focus on creating successful outcomes for our students and our commitment to maximizing the investment our students and their families are making to earn a college degree," said Jens Frederiksen, Ph.D., president of the University of New Haven. "We are in the business of transforming lives and powering the goals of our students and the dreams they didn't even know they had. It is gratifying and rewarding to see how highly our students speak about their experiences and the support they receive. The success of our students is deeply personal to us."
In the University's profile, current students said the community is made up of a "large number of like-minded people who are motivated by the course work and offered programs." They described the community as "caring and considerate" and "very welcoming, always open to helping one another and supportive of people who want to learn more." One student shared that "it is easy to find people you fit in with because the campus is so diverse."
The Princeton Review highlighted the University's focus on interdisciplinary education and project-based learning, enabling students to "build out a practical, personalized degree.
"Because at least one component of experiential education is required for graduation, the school works to ensure that students get internships or service learning, whether that's in a booming field like cybersecurity or international business, or an up-and-coming degree fire science or esports and gaming," the profile reads.
The profile featured a comment from one student who said the University, "has a lot of amazing programs you cannot get anywhere else."
The faculty were commended for bringing extensive experience into the classroom, including "real world stories as well as hands-on events and exercises." Students commented that, because "class sizes tend to stay small [we can form] better relationships with our professors."
Students also highlighted "wonderful facilities" and the University's Enhanced Learning Communities, which allow first-year students in the same major to live together. Students also said the University's athletics teams "always can bring out a crowd," while the neighboring city of New Haven features plenty of "cool places and restaurants" to explore.
"The colleges we profile in our book are truly a select group," said Rob Franek, Editor-in-Chief of The Princeton Review and author of The Best 390 Colleges. "The colleges that make our book's ranking lists do so entirely as a result of the opinions of their customers—students attending the colleges—who complete our 89-question survey about their school."
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