{"id":6760,"date":"2018-08-08T09:11:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T16:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=6760"},"modified":"2018-08-08T11:26:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T18:26:16","slug":"harvey-mudd-noted-for-studiousness-accessible-professors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2018\/08\/08\/harvey-mudd-noted-for-studiousness-accessible-professors\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Mudd Noted for Studiousness, Accessible Professors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College is listed among the country\u2019s top undergraduate institutions in The Princeton Review\u2019s 2019 edition of\u00a0<em>The Best 384 Colleges.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Princeton Review chooses which colleges to include based on their outstanding educational programs, but does not rank the colleges academically. Instead, the guide ranks the top 20 colleges in 62 different categories from financial aid to campus food. The top 20 lists are based on The Princeton Review\u2019s survey of 138,000 students attending the 384 colleges.<\/p>\n<p>Top 20 rankings for Harvey Mudd include No. 3 in the category \u201cStudents Study the Most,\u201d No. 3 for \u201cMost Accessible Professors,\u201d No. 9 for \u201cBest Science Lab Facilities,\u201d No. 17 for \u201cLGBTQ-Friendly\u201d and No. 19 for \u201cProfessors Get High Marks.\u201d Student respondents also gave high marks to the College\u2019s classroom and lab facilities and the ease of getting around campus.<\/p>\n<p>In the Princeton Review profile, students surveyed praised Harvey Mudd professors for being \u201ctruly dedicated to undergraduate teaching\u201d and \u201calways willing to spend hours outside of class answering questions.\u201d One student commented that \u201cthe work at HMC is very challenging, but I have had the best support system; from the Academic Excellence tutors providing help for all required Core classes to the professors who are readily accessible and enthusiastic helpers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Respondents described campus life as rigorous yet rewarding with an Honor Code that encourages students \u201cto conduct themselves with honesty and integrity both personally and academically and to respect the rights of others.\u201d A student shared that Mudders are \u201cpretty much always eager to help one another.\u201d Commenting about the tight-knit community, a student stated, \u201cThere is no segregation based on class year, major, race, academic ability, dorm or anything. Everyone is respectful, smart, aware, supportive and unique.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The profile described Harvey Mudd as an excellent program in the sciences and engineering with strong undergraduate research opportunities and a very high percentage of students who go to graduate school. Among the student comments is praise for the College\u2019s broad Core Curriculum, which \u201cproduces scientists who can rise to meet interdisciplinary challenges within the sciences\u201d and facilitates \u201cgreat post-grad opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe picked the 384 \u2018best\u2019 colleges for our book primarily for their outstanding academics: we highly recommend each one,\u201d said Robert Franek, The Princeton Review\u2019s editor-in-chief and the book\u2019s lead author. \u201cHowever, we know applicants need far more than an academic rating or ranking to find the college that will be best for them. We created our 62 ranking lists to help narrow that search. They are based entirely on data we gather beyond academics that gives insight into what the schools\u2019 enrolled students say about their professors, administrators, school services, campus culture and student life. In the end, it\u2019s all about the fit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College is listed among the country\u2019s top undergraduate institutions in The Princeton Review\u2019s 2019 edition of\u00a0The Best 384 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":3465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[967],"class_list":["post-6760","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\/6760","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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}