The Princeton Review Gives 697 Colleges 'Green' Ratings In New 2010 Editions of Its...

The Princeton Review Gives 697 Colleges 'Green' Ratings In New 2010 Editions
of Its Annual College Guides and Website Profiles of Schools
-- Rating Scores Based on Environmental Practices, Policies and Course
Offerings

NEW YORK, July 27, /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Princeton Review (Nasdaq:
REVU) -- known for its education services helping students choose and get in
to colleges -- today reported its second annual Green Ratings of colleges: a
measure of how environmentally friendly the institutions are on a scale of 60
to 99. The company tallied its Green Ratings for 697 institutions based on
data it collected from the colleges in 2008-09 concerning their
environmentally related policies, practices, and academic offerings.

The Princeton Review also named 15 colleges to its "2010 Green Rating Honor
Roll" -- a list that salutes the institutions that received the highest
possible score -- 99 -- in this year's rating tallies. (List follows.)

The Green Rating scores appear in the profiles of the 697 schools that The
Princeton Review posted today on its site, www.PrincetonReview.com. The
ratings are also in profiles of those schools in the 2010 editions of three
Princeton Review books: "The Best 371 Colleges" (on sale July 28, $22.99),
"The Best Northeastern Colleges" (on sale August 4, $16.99), and "Complete
Book of Colleges" (on sale August 4, $26.99), all published by Random House.

Criteria

The Princeton Review developed its Green Rating criteria and institutional
survey in 2007 with ecoAmerica (www.ecoamerica.org), a non-profit
environmental organization that continues to participate in this project. The
criteria for the rating cover three broad areas: 1/ whether the school's
students have a campus quality of life that is healthy and sustainable, 2/ how
well the school is preparing its students for employment and citizenship in a
world defined by environmental challenges, and 3/ the school's overall
commitment to environmental issues. The institutional survey for the rating
included ten questions on everything from energy use, recycling, food,
buildings, and transportation to academic offerings (availability of
environmental studies degrees and courses) and action plans and goals
concerning greenhouse gas emission reductions.

The Princeton Review's "2010 Green Rating Honor Roll"
This list, published in "The Best 371 Colleges," salutes 15 institutions
(eight private and seven public colleges) that received the highest possible
rating score of 99. It includes:
(in alphabetical order)
Arizona State University at the Tempe campus
Bates College (Lewiston ME)
Binghamton University (State Univ. of New York at Binghamton)
College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor ME)
Colorado College (Colorado Springs CO)
Dickinson College (Carlisle PA)
Evergreen State College (Olympia WA)
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta)
Harvard College (Cambridge MA)
Middlebury College (Middlebury VT)
Northeastern University (Boston MA)
University of California - Berkeley
University of New Hampshire (Durham)
University of Washington (Seattle)
Yale University (New Haven CT)

Said Robert Franek, V.P. / Publisher, The Princeton Review, "The 'green'
movement on college campuses is far more than an Earth Day recycling project.
It is growing tremendously among students and administrators alike. This year
we saw a 30% increase in the number of colleges participating in our Green
Rating survey. We thank the nearly 700 institutions (697 vs. 534 last year)
that supplied us with the data we requested to tally their scores. Many have
shown extraordinary commitments to environmental issues and to the environment
in their practices and programs. We are pleased to play a role in helping
students who care deeply about these issues identify, get into, and study at
these schools."

Franek noted the rising interest among students in attending colleges that
practice, teach and support environmentally responsible choices. Among almost
16,000 college applicants and parents of applicants The Princeton Review
surveyed this year for its annual "College Hopes & Worries Survey," 66% of
respondents overall (and 68% of students vs. 59% of parents) said they would
value having information about a college's commitment to the environment -- a
4% increase from last year's respondents. Among that cohort, 24% of
respondents overall (26% of students vs. 18% of parents) said such information
would "very much" impact their (their child's) decision to apply to or attend
the school.

The Princeton Review has dedicated a resource area on its website for students
and others interested in learning more about the rating and the benefits of
attending a green college. The area www.princetonreview.com/green has
information on colleges with exemplary environmental programs, questions to
ask on school visits, and links to organizations that promote higher education
and campus sustainability programs.

About The Princeton Review College Ratings and College Rankings

The Princeton Review college ratings are scores on a scale of 60 to 99 in
eight categories that it reports in some college profiles on its website and
in its college guides. The ratings are based primarily on institutional
data. In addition to the Green Rating, other rating categories include:
Financial Aid, and Fire Safety (for which The Princeton Review also reports
Honor Rolls of schools receiving its highest possible score of 99), and
Admissions Selectivity. Schools from which The Princeton Review does not
receive sufficient data in a category to tally a rating receive a score of 60*
(sixty with an asterisk).

The Princeton Review college rankings are lists of schools in 62 categories
(in rank order 1 to 20) based entirely on the Company's surveys of 122,000
students attending the schools in its book, "The Best 371 Colleges." The
survey asks students to rate their own schools on dozens of topics and report
on their campus experiences at them.

About The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review (Nasdaq: REVU) has been a pioneer and leader in helping
students achieve their higher education goals for more than 25 years through
college and graduate school test preparation and tutoring. With more than 165
print and digital publications and a free website, www.PrincetonReview.com,
the Company provides student and their parents with the resources to research,
apply to, prepare for, and learn how to pay for higher education. The
Princeton Review also partners with schools and guidance counselors throughout
the U.S. to assist in college readiness, test preparation and career planning
services, helping more students pursue postsecondary education. The Company is
headquartered in Framingham, MA with editorial offices in New York City and
test preparation locations across the country and abroad. The Princeton Review
is not affiliated with Princeton University and it is not a magazine.

About ecoAmerica

ecoAmerica (www.ecoAmerica.org) is an environmental nonprofit that uses
consumer research, partnerships, and engagement marketing to shift the
personal and civic choices of mainstream Americans. ecoAmerica partnered with
The Princeton Review to develop the initial concept of the Green Rating and
provided strategic planning and partnership building expertise for its
development. Other programs ecoAmerica has launched include The American
College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, Nature Rocks, and
GreenCareers by MonsterTRAK.

Web site: http://www.princetonreview.com

SOURCE The Princeton Review

Harriet Brand, Director of Public Relations, The Princeton Review,
+1-212-874-8282 Ext. 1091, harrietb@review.com