{"id":7735,"date":"2019-08-07T15:28:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T22:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=7735"},"modified":"2019-12-18T09:36:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T17:36:28","slug":"princeton-review-ranks-harvey-mudd-in-top-10-for-studiousness-labs-and-accessible-professors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2019\/08\/07\/princeton-review-ranks-harvey-mudd-in-top-10-for-studiousness-labs-and-accessible-professors\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton Review Ranks Harvey Mudd Labs &#038; Profs Among the Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College is\u00a0listed among the country\u2019s top undergraduate institutions in The Princeton Review\u2019s 2020 edition of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.princetonreview.com\/college-rankings\/best-colleges\">The Best 385 Colleges.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Princeton Review chooses which colleges to include based on the colleges\u2019 outstanding educational programs, but does not rank the colleges academically. Instead, the annual guide ranks the top 20 colleges in 62 different categories from financial aid to campus food. For the 2020 edition, the top 20 lists are based on The Princeton Review\u2019s survey of 140,000 students attending the 385 colleges.<\/p>\n<p>Top 20 rankings for Harvey Mudd this year include No. 8 in the category \u201cMost Accessible Professors,\u201d No. 8 for \u201cStudents Study the Most\u201d and No. 10 for \u201cBest Science Lab Facilities.\u201d<\/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>Harvey Mudd ranked No. 1 for \u201cBest Career Placement\u201d in The Princeton Review\u2019s most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princetonreview.com\/college-rankings\/best-value-colleges\">The Best Value Colleges: 200 Schools with Exceptional ROI<\/a>, a separate annual college guide published each January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College is\u00a0listed among the country\u2019s top undergraduate institutions in The Princeton Review\u2019s 2020 edition of\u00a0The Best 385 Colleges. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":7738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"class_list":["post-7735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ranking"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}