Hollins University is one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduates according to The Princeton Review. The education services company profiles and recommends Hollins in the new edition of its annual college guide, The Best 390 Colleges: 2025 Edition.
Only about 15% of America’s 2,600 four-year colleges are profiled in the book. The Princeton Review chooses colleges based on data it annually collects from surveys of 2,000 college administrators about their institutions’ academic offerings. The company also reviews data from its surveys of college students attending the schools who report on their experiences at their institutions.
“We salute Hollins for its outstanding academics and many other impressive offerings,” says Rob Franek, The Princeton Review’s editor-in-chief and lead author of The Best 390 Colleges. “We recommend it as an ideal choice for students searching for their ‘best-fit’ college.”
In the profile on Hollins, The Princeton Review editors cite praise from a number of students. “Our community and traditions help us create connections with students and alumnae that will last well into our adulthood,” one undergraduate notes, while another states, “I have done three internships through Hollins and it contributes a lot to my career.”
Hollins creates “a positive intellectual standard that makes me and my peers want to really grow and push our education further,” a student explains. Faculty, another adds, are “absolutely the backbone of this school and have such a passion to support their students in any way they can…academically, emotionally, and just in life.”
The Princeton Review does not rank the colleges in the book hierarchically from 1 to 390. However, the book has 50 categories of ranking lists. Each list names the top 25 schools (of those in the book) in its category. The ranking lists are entirely based on The Princeton Review’s surveys of 168,000 students at the 390 schools in the book. The 89-question survey asked students to rate their colleges on dozens of topics and report on their campus experiences at them.
Hollins appears on the following ranking lists in The Best 390 Colleges:
#6 Most Active Student Government
#15 Most Liberal Students
The Best 390 Colleges: 2025 Edition was published by Penguin Random House on August 27.
