ATLANTA -- In rankings released today, Oglethorpe University was listed in The Princeton Review’s The Best 361 Colleges. Oglethorpe also was listed as one of the 146 Best Southeastern Colleges and ranked #14 on the Class Discussions Encouraged List. Oglethorpe professors were ranked highest in the state placing #15 on the national Professors Get High Marks List. A mixture of student quotes and Review opinions feature Oglethorpe’s many qualities.

Academically The Princeton Review described Oglethorpe as “an intimate education.” A student was quoted to say, “Classes at Oglethorpe challenge us to think and introduce us to new concepts. Thanks to our core program, these concepts often build upon one another, so that I feel like my education is really coming together.”

The student body is described as “intelligent and want[ing] to learn. Their objective is often not ‘career prep’ but more of becoming a learned person.” The “Inside Word” written by The Princeton Review states, “It won’t be long before the academic strength found at Oglethorpe attracts wider attention and more applicants . . . Go to Atlanta for a campus interview – you’ll leave impressed.”

Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 1835, enrolls approximately 1,100 students representing 37 states and 28 countries. The average SAT score is 1200, and 43 percent of the freshmen graduated in the top ten percent of their high school classes. Oglethorpe University plays in the NCAA Division III Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. Oglethorpe University is a member of the Annapolis Group, an organization of America’s most selective 100 liberal arts institutions, the only such institution in Georgia that is co-educational.