Gordon College Earns Spot on The Princeton Review’s Best Colleges List for the 11th Year 

Gordon College has once again been named one of The Princeton Review’s best schools in the nation for undergraduates. This is the 11^th consecutive year Gordon merited inclusion in this annual listing of The Best 390 Colleges – 2025 Edition. 

The Princeton Review is a leading tutoring, test prep and college admissions services company known for curating lists of outstanding institutions. “The colleges we profile in our book are truly a select group: they constitute about 15 percent of America’s four-year institutions,” said Rob Franek, editor-in-chief of The Princeton Review and author of The Best 390 Colleges.  

The Princeton Review’s ranking of colleges comes entirely from students’ opinions. This year the Review surveyed 168,000 students at the 390 colleges included in the book. The company uses these surveys to create rankings of the top 25 colleges across 50 unique categories.  

Gordon also ranked #14 on the “Town-Gown Relations are Great” list, meaning students and faculty are plugged in to the local North Shore community, and the College administration works well with local towns. Gordon also ranked #18 on the “Best College Theatre” list, earning credit for being a top extracurricular component of the college experience. 

Gordon students surveyed this year by The Princeton Review commented that their classmates and professors are “genuine and kind people” who really “care about how you are doing socially, academically and spiritually.” Students felt that “when people leave here, they are prepared to get a job and do well.” 

In their profile of Gordon, The Princeton Review editors commented, “Here, students receive a well-rounded education that encourages them to make interdisciplinary connections. There’s also an appreciated emphasis on servant leadership through opportunities like the outdoor education requirement.”