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Princeton Review Lists TAC as “Best Value College,” No. 1 for “Most Conservative Students”
Princeton Review Lists TAC as “Best Value College,” No. 1 for “Most Conservative Students”
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For more information, please contact:
Chris Weinkopf, Executive Director of College Relations
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SANTA PAULA, CALIFORNIA & NORTHFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS — Thomas Aquinas College continues to provide one of the best — and most affordable — undergraduate educations in the country, according to The Princeton Review.
The annual college guide’s The Best 390 Colleges: 2025 Edition includes Thomas Aquinas College among 209 institutions on its “Best Value Colleges” list. To make the list, schools must offer superior academics, a reasonable cost of attendance, and strong career prospects for its graduates. TAC achieved an impressive 90 out of 99 points on the guide’s “Return on Investment” rating.
“We congratulate Thomas Aquinas College, along with all of the other exceptional institutions that made our ‘Best Value Colleges for 2025’ list,” says Rob Franek, editor-in-chief of The Princeton Review. “It offers outstanding academics and excellent career services, and it demonstrates extraordinary commitments to affordability via generous financial aid and comparatively low sticker prices. For all of those reasons — and more — we recommend it highly to college applicants.”
The guide further contains 50 lists of “Top 25” colleges based on a survey it conducted of 168,000 students nationwide. For the second year in a row, the college has ranked No. 1 for “Most Conservative Students” — a rating that often generates some media interest. “Contemporary politics are absent from our classical, Great Books curriculum, so that ranking is likely a reflection of our students’ deep faith and how radicalized most conventional schools have become,” says Executive Director of College Relations Chris Weinkopf. “Thomas Aquinas College aims to uphold the Church’s intellectual tradition and moral teachings, which is conservative in the truest sense of the word.”
Additionally, the college achieved rankings of No. 4 for “Professors Get High Marks,” No. 5 for “Happiest Students” and “Most Religious Students,” and No. 7 for “Great Financial Aid.” The guide features quotes from TAC students on academics, the student body, and campus life. Students mention their “brilliant, yet down-to-earth tutors” who are “always available to talk and are open to any and all questions [students] may have.” They see that their peers are “animated by a definitively Catholic spirit” and have “a strong desire to do good and help others.”
“We are pleased that, once again, The Princeton Review has featured Thomas Aquinas College in its annual guide of the country’s best colleges,” adds Mr. Weinkopf. “We find the high scores for our financial aid program and exemplary tutors especially gratifying. Our goal has always been to provide the best education at the most affordable price, and The Princeton Review’s latest profile strongly suggests that we are succeeding.”
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About Thomas Aquinas College
With campuses in California and Massachusetts, Thomas Aquinas College has developed over the last half century a solid reputation for academic excellence in the United States and abroad. It is highly ranked by secular organizations, such as The Princeton Review and U. S. News, as well as Catholic guides, including the Cardinal Newman Society and the National Catholic Register. The college offers one, four-year, classical curriculum that spans the major arts and sciences. Instead of reading textbooks, students study the original works of the greatest thinkers in Western civilization — the Great Books — in all the major disciplines. Rather than listen to lectures, they work through these texts in small, rigorous classroom discussions. The academic life of the college is conducted under the light of the Catholic faith and flourishes within a close-knit community, supported by a vibrant spiritual life. Alumni consistently excel in the many world-class institutions at which they pursue graduate degrees in fields such as law, medicine, business, theology, and education.