Students across the United State filled out rankings for their schools in a wide variety of areas for the non-affiliated online survey, The Princeton Review. UNM students cited “research-oriented staff” and “research opportunities available” along with affordability and scholarships as academic indicators. Students also say research can be done with top of the line equipment at nearby Sandia National Labs, Los Alamos National Labs and other well-known research institutes.
UNM students noted say that “professors are helpful and genuinely interested in your personal success.” Students also agreed that professors are approachable both in class and out and “talk to you and with you and not just at you.”
The students list the “hundreds of great student organizations that provide opportunities for students to know each other.” One student noted that “everyone seems to find their niche.”
The students also underscored diversity as the greatest strength of the student body. One student noted, “no one will ever feel ethnically alone since there are so many different kinds of people.”
The Princeton Review does not do academic rankings. Instead it focuses on other areas of student interest. It is also not affiliated with Princeton University.
The Princeton Review scored UNM low in two areas of “Dorms like Dungeons” and “Long Lines and Red Tape.”
Media contact: Karen Wentworth (505) 277-5627;kwent2@unm.edu
Posted by kwentworth at July 29, 2009 01:12 PM