Princeton Review’s Green College Ratings to Debut This Summer

College students everywhere now have a new guide to choosing the right school: the Princeton Review, a popular annual guide for college students to gain information about schools, now includes ‘green ratings’. The 2009 guide is set to be published later this month. Other factors ranked by the Princeton Review for the 600 colleges included in its guide include everything from financial aid to selectivity to quality of life.

From GreenBiz.com:

The Review added the green dimension to its ratings system after it found that 63 percent of college applicants surveyed said they would value having information about a college’s commitment to the environment and that such data could affect their choice to apply or attend a school.

The green rating is based on responses to a battery of questions that are designed to provide a comprehensive measure of a school’s performance as an “environmentally aware and responsible institution,” the Review said on its website.

What an awesome resource – this is definitely something that more and more college students want to know about. It could also foster some competition between schools to get greener, and of course we LOVE that! Exciting time to be entering college.

Link [GreenBiz.com]

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