Quinnipiac is among the top colleges and universities in the U.S., according to the 2010 Princeton Review Guide.

The New York-based education services company known for its test-prep courses features the University in the 2010 edition of its annual book, "The Best 371 Colleges." The book includes two-page profiles of each school and student survey-based ranking lists of top 20 colleges in more than 60 categories.

"We commend Quinnipiac for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our choice of schools for the book," said Robert Franek, Princeton Review's vice president of publishing. "We also work to keep a wide representation of colleges in the book by region, size, selectivity and character. We make our choices based on institutional data we gather about schools, feedback from students attending them, and input from our staff who visit hundreds of colleges a year. We also value the opinions and suggestions of our 23-member National College Counselor Advisory Board, and independent college counselors we hear from yearlong."

In its profile of Quinnipiac, The Princeton Review quotes extensively from Quinnipiac students surveyed for the book. Among their candid comments on Quinnipiac were:

• Quinnipiac is "a professional school with the goal of educating its students to succeed in the future."
• "The dorms as well as the campus are gorgeous."
• The University offers "lively student television programming (news, sports, a game show, a travel show and soon a cooking show), an excellent student newspaper, and an eclectic student radio station."

The ranking lists in "The Best 371 Colleges" are based on The Princeton Review's survey of 122,000 students (about 325 per campus on average) attending the 371 colleges in the book. A college's appearance on these lists is attributable to a high consensus among its surveyed students about the subject. The 80-question survey asked students to rate their schools on several topics and report on their campus experiences at them. Ranking lists report the top 20 schools in categories that range from best professors, administration, and campus food to lists based on student body political leanings, race/class relations, sports interests, and other aspects of campus life.

To view Quinnipiac's profile, go to www.PrincetonReview.com.