Princeton Review to Feature Thomas Aquinas College in The Best
366 Colleges: 2008 Edition
(March 8, 2007)
SANTA PAULA, Calif.—According to The Princeton Review, Thomas
Aquinas College is "one of the nation's best institutions for
undergraduate education" and "one of only eight new schools
receiving the Best 366 designation" out of more than 3,500
institutions across the country. The New York-based company known
for its test-prep courses, books and other education services has
selected the Catholic, 4-year, co-educational college for inclusion
in its forthcoming edition of its popular annual "best colleges"
guidebook. Titled The Best 366 Colleges: 2008 Edition (Random
House / Princeton Review Books, $21.95 paperback), the guide will
be available in bookstores in late August 2007.
Said Robert Franek, Vice President for Publishing, The Princeton
Review, "Only about 10% of the colleges in America are in this
book. It is our flagship guide to 'the crème of the crop'
institutions for undergraduates. We chose them as our 'best' based
on several criteria including: our regard for their academic programs
and other offerings, institutional data we collect from the schools,
and the opinions of students, parents and educators we talk to and
survey….Each one is an outstanding institution…."
Said President Thomas E. Dillon, "We at Thomas Aquinas College
are delighted to be recognized by The Princeton Review as one of
the nation's best undergraduate institutions. This is yet another
indication that it is indeed possible for a Catholic institution
of higher learning to achieve academic excellence while maintaining
its fidelity to the teaching Church."
About Thomas Aquinas College:
Thomas Aquinas College offers a unique, four-year program of Catholic
liberal education that begins in wonder and aims at wisdom. The
curriculum is composed exclusively of the Great Books, and the college
uses only the Socratic method of dialogue in all of its classes.
There are no textbooks, no lectures and no electives. Instead the
college offers an entirely integrated curriculum using only the
original texts of the greatest thinkers who have helped shape Western
civilization. Some are regarded as masterworks, while others serve
as sources of opinions that either lead students to the truth, or
make the truth more evident by opposition to it. Included in the
program are works by St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, Aristotle,
Plato, Shakespeare, Euclid, Dante, our American Founding Fathers,
Adam Smith, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Einstein,
to name a few.
Thomas Aquinas College graduates consistently excel in the many
world-class institutions where they pursue graduate degrees in law,
medicine, business, theology and education. They distinguish themselves
in these professions, serving as headmasters, business owners, lawyers,
priests, doctors, military service men and women, professors and
college presidents.
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