College of the Holy Cross

4th Year Male -- Class 2001

Education Quality: A+,

Newsweek calculated colleges' return on investment. The top five schools in the country? Princeton, Amherst, Dartmouth, Williams ? and Holy Cross. The College of the Holy Cross is one of the most academically rigorous and best value colleges in the country, according to Newsweek's 2011 college rankings. Holy Cross was fifth in the nation for ?Return on Investment? and came in at number 22 on the magazine's ?Most Rigorous? list.

To come up with their rankings, which were divided into 25 categories, Newsweek ?looked at what American kids really care about these days, and also pulled from sources including the National Center for Education Statistics, the College Board, the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, the Sustainable Endowment Institute, a data partnership with the Washington Monthly? (which recently ranked Holy Cross 39th on their list of the top liberal arts colleges.)

3rd Year Female -- Class 2012

Education Quality: A+, Collaboration/Competitive: B

Holy Cross is one of the top academic colleges in the Boston area as rated by the Princeton Review an unbiased well regarded source:

School Princeton Review Academic Rating
Harvard 99
College of the Holy Cross 98
Boston College 87
Tufts 89
Brandeis 88
MIT 97
Boston Univ 84
Source(s): http://www.princetonreview.com/It also was ranked 8th in the country by Kiplinger's for Best Values in National Private Colleges. The campus is spectacularly beautiful and the classes are small and the professors all have PhD and it is strictly undergraduate. It has great division 1 sports and the basketball team often goes to the NCAAs and the football team won the Patriot League championship this year. 25% of students are varsity athletes. It is an amazing college and less than an hour to Boston and borders a medium size city with lots to do.

3rd Year Male -- Class 2010

Faculty Accessibility: A+, Surrounding City: B-