{"id":14606,"date":"2025-08-12T13:15:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/?p=14606"},"modified":"2025-08-26T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:31:09","slug":"harvey-mudd-in-princeton-reviews-best-391-colleges-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2025\/08\/12\/harvey-mudd-in-princeton-reviews-best-391-colleges-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Mudd in Princeton Review\u2019s Best 391 Colleges for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Harvey Mudd College was named one of the country\u2019s top undergraduate institutions in <em>The Princeton Review\u2019s<\/em> latest college guide, <em>The Best 391 Colleges for 2026<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Princeton Review<\/em> chooses which colleges to include in the guide based on the quality of their educational programs but does not rank the colleges overall. This year, the company\u2019s editors named the top 25 colleges in 50 separate categories, ranging from laboratory facilities to financial aid to campus food. The ranking lists are based on <em>The Princeton Review\u2019s<\/em> surveys of students currently attending the colleges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harvey Mudd\u2019s rankings in <em>The Princeton Review\u2019s<\/em> <em>Best 391 Colleges 2026<\/em> include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No. 1 for \u201cMost Accessible Professors\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No. 2 for \u201cTop 20 Best Value Colleges w\/o Aid (Private Schools)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No. 2 for \u201cTop 20 Best Career Placement (Private Schools)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No. 3 for \u201cTop 20 Best Schools for Making an Impact (Private Schools)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No. 4 for \u201cTop 50 Best Value Colleges (Private Schools)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No. 7 for &#8220;Best Campus Food&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No. 15 for \u201cBest Quality of Life\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Harvey Mudd meets 100% of demonstrated financial need for all students, and about 70% of students receive need-based or merit awards or a combination of both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In<a href=\"https:\/\/www.princetonreview.com\/college\/harvey-mudd-college-1023484\"> <em>The Princeton Review<\/em>\u2019s profile of Harvey Mudd<\/a>, the editors write that the College \u201cdoes a great job at fulfilling its specific niche as a top-tier STEM college with all the support and benefits of a liberal arts college.\u201d Students praise the broad Core Curriculum, which combines \u201ca solid foundation in each of the major STEM areas\u201d with courses in the humanities, social sciences and the arts, fostering graduates who \u201ccan rise to meet interdisciplinary challenges within the sciences\u201d and enjoy \u201cgreat post-grad opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students described Harvey Mudd as having \u201cincredible\u201d professors who \u201creally care about [us] and that we are doing okay in life outside of our courses.\u201d The community is characterized as small and tight knit, where \u201ceveryone looks after one another\u201d and \u201cupperclassmen help you on your homework at odd hours in the night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College was named one of the country\u2019s top undergraduate institutions in The Princeton Review\u2019s latest college guide, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":14597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[967],"class_list":["post-14606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-feed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14692,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606\/revisions\/14692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}