Brooklyn College Is a 2009 Best Value College: Princeton Review

Brooklyn College has been ranked as one of America’s Top Fifty Best Value Public Colleges for 2009 by the Princeton Review in its annual survey, made even more timely by the current tough economic times.

The survey reported that Brooklyn College "tuition for nonresidents is affordable, and tuition for residents is ridiculously affordable. As if bargain-basement tuition weren’t enough, Brooklyn College also offers a wealth of merit-scholarship programs and meets the financial aid needs of its students through a generous combination of grants, scholarships, and loans."

Upon hearing news of the report, Brooklyn College President Christoph M. Kimmich said: "To be included in the Princeton Review’s list is recognition, once again, of the quality and value of a Brooklyn College education. That education has drawn increasing numbers of high-achieving students who are attracted by a world-class faculty, a broad array of academic offerings, and an active extracurricular life. And it assures graduates of opportunities to advance and succeed in their careers."

In addition to recognizing the College’s modest financial requirements, the Princeton Review cited the beauty of its bucolic campus within an urban setting that offers many cultural opportunities, and strongly praised the serious nature of its broadly diverse student body and the rigor of its obligatory ten-course core curriculum that requires students "to study a broad range of disciplines." It advised college-bound students that at Brooklyn College "you will be exposed to most of the liberal arts and sciences no matter which major you choose."

"Brooklyn College has been an absolute gift," says Sameen Farooq, Macaulay Honors student. "I’ve met incredible people, I traveled the world, and my peers are amazing. It’s just given me so much."

The survey also ranked Brooklyn College’s fellow CUNY institutions Baruch, Hunter, and Queens colleges among the nation’s strongest-bang-for-your-buck public colleges.

The Princeton Review, one of the country’s most well-known education services and test-prep companies, selected its top one hundred best value choices based on surveys of administrators and students at more than 650 public and private colleges and universities. The selection criteria covered more than thirty factors in three areas—academics, costs of attendance, and financial aid—using the most recently reported data from each institution for its 2007–08 academic year.