Featured Activity: Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges

For today’s students, researching colleges can be daunting. Fortunately, The Princeton Review’s Guide to 332 Green Colleges makes one part of the search a little easier.

The Princeton Review and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) again partnered to produce the fifth annual edition of the guidebook, which highlights institutions of higher education that have demonstrated a strong commitment to sustainability.

From an extensive national survey, the Princeton Review identified the colleges and universities that are “greenest” in academics, campus infrastructure, activities, and career preparations. The guide examines the top 332 schools and explains just why they are so great, and so green.

“Princeton Review identified the colleges and universities that are ‘greenest’ in academics, campus infrastructure, activities, and career preparations.”

Did you know that through green power NYU is achieving benefits equivalent to removing 12,000 cars from the road? Or that schools like the Georgia Institute of Technology and The George Washington University offer more than 100 courses with a sustainability focus? How about that Middlebury College has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2016?

All this and much more can be found in the 216 page guide, which offers school profiles and “Green Facts” reporting on everything from schools’ use of renewable energy to whether or not they offer guidance for green jobs. The guide also features a list of schools with LEED-certified buildings and those that are signatories of the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment.

And best of all? It is completely free.

The guide can be downloaded at www.princetonreview.com/green-guide and www.centerforgreenschools.org/greenguide.