Survey Says: Stockton Among the Best in the Northeast

The is now a member of an elite group, the school announced on Tuesday.

The Galloway-based college was named among the 220 best colleges in the Northeast by the Princeton Review, a nationally-recognized education services company. Stockton is reviewed on the Princeton Review's website and in its 2012 college guidebook.

In its website feature, "2012 Best Colleges: Region by Region," the Princeton Review profiles a total of 629 schools in the Northeast, Southeast, West and Midwest. That constitutes 25 percent of the nation's four-year institutions, of which there are a total of 2,500.

Stockton is also analyzed in the Princeton Review's book, "The Best Northeastern Colleges: 2012 Edition."

The Northeast Region includes colleges in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia.

As part of its analysis, the Princeton Review surveys students attending the colleges about their educational experience.

Stockton has “great ethnic diversity on campus because it attracts students from all over New Jersey, Philadelphia and New York, (areas) that are already diverse," the Princeton Review's survey revealed. Stockton students also stated that “overall there appears to be great camaraderie among the undergrads.”

Stockton students also praised Greek life at the college for not including hazing practices.

The Princeton Review also emphasized Stockton's small class sizes, no teaching assistants and the presence of a Pulitzer Prize winner, Guggenheim Fellow, two Fulbright scholars and many recognized experts in their respective fields.