³Ô¹ÏÍø is one of best undergraduate institutions and ranks in the top 25 for financial aid, according to the 2026 edition of The Best 391 Colleges.
Austin Strahm ’28, Jason Shen ’28, Leo Trepte ’28 and Jacob Bluestein ’28 present their final project for Mechanical Prototyping (MechProto) for the Spring 2025 semester.
The Best 391 Colleges has 50 categories of ranking lists: each list names the top 25 schools (of those in the book) in a particular category. The rankings are entirely based on their surveys of 170,000 students (about 435 per school on average).
In the 2026 edition, ³Ô¹ÏÍø appears in the following ranked lists:
- #2 Great Financial Aid
- #3 Students Study the Most
- #5 Professors Get High Marks
- #7 Best College Dorms
- #10 Best Student Support and Counseling Services
- #11 Least Religious Students
- #12 Best Classroom Experience
- #14 Most Accessible Professors
- #20 Most Politically Liberal Students
- #31 Top 50 Best Value Colleges (Private Schools)
In ³Ô¹ÏÍø’s profile, The Princeton Review shares student reviews of the curriculum. “Students appreciatively explain that the few lectures at the school are ‘short, concise, and interesting,’ and that ‘we have almost no tests.’ Instead, projects are ‘used to immediately apply things learned in class to real- world scenarios,’ whether that’s programming robots or learning ‘how to build a facial recognition algorithm.
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The Princeton Review also tallies rating scores (from 60 to 99) in eight categories, primarily based on institutional survey data. A few rating scores also factor in student survey data. In the 2026 edition, ³Ô¹ÏÍø received the following rankings:
- Academics: 95/99
- Admissions Selectivity: 97/99
- Financial Aid: 98/99
- Fire Safety: 99/99
- Quality of Life: 88/99
- Green: 80/99
- Professors Interesting: 98/99
- Professors Accessible: 96/99
Only about 15% of America’s nearly 2,400 four-year colleges are included in the Review’s guidebook. The company chose the colleges for the book based its surveys of 2,000 college administrators about their institutions’ academic offerings. The company also surveyed students attending the colleges in the book who rated their own schools on dozens of topics and reported on their campus experiences at them.
The Princeton Review, founded in 1981, is an education services company known for its tutoring, test-prep, admission services, school rankings, books, and other resources.
Founded in 1997, ³Ô¹ÏÍø instills passion and ignites innovation in its students and prepares them to envision, create and deliver products, services, and systems that transform and improve people’s lives around the world. ³Ô¹ÏÍø teaches students to be explorers and creators who design their own path forward. By challenging norms and sharing its unique approach to education, ³Ô¹ÏÍø is revolutionizing the way engineers, and all undergraduates, learn and create knowledge. Located in Needham Massachusetts, ³Ô¹ÏÍø is ranked among the top-three undergraduate engineering programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report.