Princeton Review Names TAC a 2022 “Best Value College”

“Thomas Aquinas College is one of the nation’s best colleges for students seeking a great education with excellent career preparation and at a relatively affordable price,” according to The Princeton Review, which has included Thomas Aquinas College on its list of Best Value Colleges for 2022. “The schools we chose as our Best Value Colleges for 2022 are a select group,” adds  Rob Franek, The Princeton Review’s editor-in-chief. “They comprise only about 7 percent of the nation’s four-year undergraduate institutions.”

Alongside this broad acknowledgement of the overall value of a TAC education, the Review also rated the College on specific areas, in all of which the College Scored high: 90 in Academics, 93 in Quality of Life, 94 in Financial Aid, and 98 in Tutor Accessibility.

Based on its student survey, The Princeton Review additionally reports that, at Thomas Aquinas College:

• Students are happy
• Classroom facilities are great
• Class discussions [are] encouraged
• No one cheats
• Students are friendly
• Diverse student types interact on campus
• Students are very religious
• Dorms are like palaces

In its profile, the annual college guide quotes extensively from the College’s students. Among their comments:

• “Students have a wide spectrum of terms with which to describe their unique education: ‘difficult, mind blowing, extremely enjoyable, and intensely interesting.’”
• “Students say [tutors] are excellent at facilitating discussions, ‘always accessible outside of their class hours,’ and ‘strong role models and mentors.’”
• “Students say the combination of curriculum and pedagogy allows them to ‘find the truth themselves,’ hone their critical thinking skills, and, by senior year, grasp essential ‘core ideas of the highest nature such as relativity, time, space and being.’”
• “TAC students take pride in the ‘culture of casual kindnesses,’ where everyone ‘is friendly and comfortable with each other’ and is ‘always willing to have a good conversation.’”
• “Students describe their peers as ‘kind,’ ‘quirky,’ ‘genuine,’ and united by ‘a desire for [pursuing] knowledge for its own sake.’”

Mr. Franek extended his congratulations to all the colleges that made the list. “We commend their administrators, faculties, staff, and alumni for all they are doing to educate their students and guide them to success in their careers,” he said. “These colleges are also exceptional for the generous amount of financial aid they award to students with need and/or for their comparatively low cost of attendance.”

“We are grateful that the Princeton Review has, once again, highlighted both the quality of our academic program and the affordability of this education,” says Chris Weinkopf, Thomas Aquinas College’s director of communications. “Yet especially noteworthy are the high marks it has given for the accessibility of our faculty and the quality of our classroom conversations, which are at the heart of our academic program. These high rankings, coming from a secular college guide, speak to the universal value of Catholic liberal education.”