3:33pm | Cal State Long Beach has received some good news this week, just in time to kick off the new school year. The Princeton Review has chosen the university as one of 121 institutions to be named “Best in the West” in its “2012 Best Colleges: Region by Region.”
The Princeton Review, a nonprofit organization, chose Cal State Long Beach primarily because of its excellent academic program, according to officials.
“We’re especially pleased with The Princeton Review’s continuing determination that Cal State Long Beach is one of the best universities in the West and, just as important, that we continue to rank among the 50 public universities that Princeton Review considers the nation’s best collegiate values,” CSULB President F. King Alexander said in a statement.
Cal State Long Beach’s successes also landed the school on The Princeton Review’s list of 50 “Best Value Colleges for 2011.”
Overall, The Princeton review named 629 colleges, which is about one-quarter of the nation’s four-year institutions, to the four “regional best” lists.