{"id":11985,"date":"2025-10-23T02:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11985\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:33:16","slug":"princeton-review-scranton-among-nations-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11985\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton Review: Scranton Among Nation\u2019s Best"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rankings are based on data points including a survey of 170,000 students responding to 98 prompts and questions; among them, how strongly students agree or disagree with the statements \u201cStudents are committed to community service\u201d and \u201cHow do you rate your school\u2019s science lab facilities?\u201d<\/p>\n

University students quoted by the Princeton Review said Scranton emphasizes \u201cwell-rounded education\u201d with \u201cdiscussions, hands-on learning with simulation laboratories and outdoor classes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are also a number of service-oriented clubs and \u2018activities like volunteering at food pantries or helping with educational programs for underserved communities (are) especially meaningful,\u2019\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The most recent Community and Economic Impact Report,<\/a> produced by the University\u2019s Office of Community Relations, found that University students provided tens of thousands of hours of community service during the 2023-24 academic year. The Center of Service and Social Justice works regularly with 120-plus local nonprofit organizations on projects including food, clothing, gift and blood drives, mentoring and summer camp programs for area youth and other special events.<\/p>\n

The University\u2019s Loyola Science Center (LSC), a four-story, state-of-the-art facility with 34 laboratories, is home to the University\u2019s biology, chemistry, physics\/electrical engineering, mathematics and computer science departments. Leahy Hall, home to the University\u2019s physical therapy, occupational therapy, kinesiology and other health science programs, includes more than 30 laboratories and traditional and active-learning classrooms, including an Orthopedic and Therapeutic Modalities laboratory, a Rehabilitation and Neurological laboratory and a hospital simulation room. Scranton also has new laboratory spaces for mechanical engineering research, design, development, building and testing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t rank colleges based on our opinion of them nor would we crown a school \u2018best\u2019 overall,\u201d Franek said. \u201cIt is what the students attending the colleges in this book tell us about their experiences at their schools that determines on which lists the schools appear in our book.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rankings are based on data points including a survey of 170,000 students responding to 98 prompts and questions;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[9418,9419,9420,9417,8039,178,180,179,274],"class_list":["post-11985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-391-best-colleges","tag-community-service","tag-laboratories","tag-princeton-review","tag-science","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}