Tuesday, September 2, 2025–9:40 a.m.

-News Release-

Berry College has been named to The Princeton Review’s 2026 Best Colleges rankings.

The company’s 50 categories of college rankings were posted on PrincetonReview.com on Aug. 12. They are also published in “The Best 391 Colleges: 2026 Edition”. 

All the ranking lists are based on The Princeton Review’s surveys of students attending the schools in the book who rate their own colleges on dozens of topics and report on their campus experiences at them. The rankings reported are based on data from the company’s surveys of 170,000 students at the 391 schools in the book (about 435 per school on average). The surveys were conducted in 2024–25 and/or the previous two academic years. 

For our “2026 Best Colleges: Region by Region” web feature, we salute 631 colleges in seven zones—Northeast, South, Southwest, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, West, and International (outside of the United States)—that we consider academically outstanding and well worth consideration in your college search. Berry is included in the Best of the South list.

“The colleges we profile in our ‘Best Colleges’ book are a truly select group. They constitute only about 15% of America’s nearly 2,400 four-year institutions,” said Rob Franek, Editor-in-Chief of The Princeton Review and the book’s lead author. “While they vary by locale, type, size, and campus culture, each one offers its students an academically outstanding undergraduate education. In our opinion, they are the nation’s best undergraduate colleges and ideal choices for students seeking their ‘best-fit’ college.”

“The colleges that make our ranking lists do so entirely as a result of their own students’ opinions of them,” Franek added.