Fifty New York colleges and universities made it onto The Princeton Review’s Best 390 Colleges list for 2025 earlier this year.
The list is based on college students’ own rankings of the colleges they attend and names the top 25 schools in 50 different categories, including great financial aid, most politically active students and best campus food. Almost 170,000 surveys were collected in 2023-2024 and/or the previous two academic years, which include 89 questions about the school’s academics/administration, life at their college, their fellow students and themselves.
Here’s what to know.
Which NY colleges and universities made the list
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Alfred University
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Bard College
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Barnard College
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City College of New York
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Baruch College
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Brooklyn College
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Hunter College
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Queens College
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Clarkson University
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Colgate University
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Columbia University
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The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
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Cornell University
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Elmira College
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Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School
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Fordham University
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Hamilton College
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Hobart and William Smith Colleges
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Hofstra University
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Iona University
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Ithaca College
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LeMoyne College
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Manhattan University
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Manhattanville University
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Marist College
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Nazareth University
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New York University
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Pace University
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Rochester Institute of Technology
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Sarah Lawrence College (ranked #1 for professors get high marks category)
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Siena College
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Skidmore College (ranked #1 for great financial aid)
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St. Bonaventure University
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St. John’s University
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St. Lawrence University
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Binghamton University
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SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
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Purchase College
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Stony Brook University
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University at Albany
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SUNY Geneseo (ranked #1 for least politically active students)
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Syracuse University
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Union College
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United States Merchant Marine Academy
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United States Military Academy
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University of Rochester
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Vassar College
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Wagner College
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Webb Institute
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This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Best colleges in New York: See who made Princeton Review’s list
