The 10 Colleges With The Best Quality Of Life: Princeton Review List

College is much more than simply going to classes and working towards a summer internship. Students look for a campus where the quality of life will help give them an awesome college experience.

The Princeton Review surveyed over 122,000 students and ranked the top schools around the country for quality of life, and we've got the top 10 for you here. What's your favorite? Tell us in the comments section below.

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[Vthompson]

07:24 PM on 07/21/2012

We love our University of Oregon (pronounced Orygun) Ducks. Eugene is a great college town..

[scruggsauburn]

05:51 PM on 02/14/2012

As a graduate of Auburn University, I will never forget my days attending school on the plains. I always felt safe and thankful to attend a school with so many rich traditions and high expectations! War Eagle!
Katie Baxter Scruggs '99

[chorton65]

09:47 AM on 02/14/2012

Everyone who has attended Auburn will agree with its high ranking. There is a spirit there unlike any other. The University, the city of Auburn, the students and the athletic program all work together to make a college experience there memorable. When Auburn alumni exchange their famous battle cry "War Eagle" it is not an "in your face, we're better than you" type utterance. It is a greeting that means " I know you, we shared a common experience at a very special place and like you I believe in Auburn and love it." And don't sell Auburn's academic standards short. Auburn ranked 9th in the nation and first in the SEC in the number of Merit Scholarship Winning students attending public universities. Auburn's engineering, veterinary and pharmacy schools are highly ranked and their fisheries program may be the best in the country. Auburn, a proud university with a grand tradition. War Eagle!

[deb9299]

03:06 AM on 02/14/2012

I am so glad to see Macalester College made Princeton's Review List of the 10 Colleges with The Best Quality Of Life. Macalester is well deserving of this recognition. When I lived in the Twin Cities, my choir rehearsed at Macalester College. Our choir performed at the 2009 Reunion. The campus is beautiful and it is in a very nice neighborhood.

[modrocker]

03:49 PM on 02/13/2012

Not only did Auburn make the list for quality of life, they also made the top ten schools for slackers. Go figure.

[raykibb]

01:31 PM on 02/15/2012

If you're a slacker, Auburn rules!! They serve ciche' to those skipping class and watching soap operas in the dorm.

[Quis Custodiet]

06:15 AM on 02/13/2012

Why are people who are unfamiliar with the variables which encompass quality of life posting on the College BB? Shouldn't they be scanning groceries somewhere?

Here's a clue folks: If the kids are stressing their way to grey hair because the Electrical Engineering T.A.'s teaching the courses barely speak English and make it a point to grade down the students who ask for clarification - the quality of life is bad. Similarly in the case of college students whose professors have the audacity to have puerile arguments with Nobel laureates during a presentation.

[karlakwist]

03:27 PM on 02/12/2012

College is NOT a country club. Kids mature by crisis.

[Quis Custodiet]

06:12 AM on 02/13/2012

So the ideal solution is to drop them off in the middle of Cambodia with a pocket knife, some flint, and 3 servings of penicillin?

You have much to learn about the human mind, stress, leisure time, and intellectual maturity. The sort you advocate, sadly, fails to pass the bar because by definition crisis based upbringings tend to yield more criminal adults than anything else. If you doubt the verity of that statement take a trip to Compton and walk down the street.

[Michelle Kupiec]

11:47 AM on 02/13/2012

3 doses of penicillin? That's a little soft of you.

[doc4fitness]

06:22 AM on 02/16/2012

Go outside USC in South Central Los Angeles, you'll see the same thing

[boscobear]

01:03 PM on 02/12/2012

A few comments about what makes the quality of life, at these schools, so good would be interesting.

[J Price]

09:57 PM on 02/11/2012

One has to wonder if they ever visited Auburn, AL...a forsaken town, old (70s) campus and a school full of backwoods AL kids. Truth.

[Jeff Kendall]

10:51 AM on 02/13/2012

Spoken by someone who has never been there.

[raykibb]

01:33 PM on 02/15/2012

Oh, I've been there and Opelika is the center of the know universe.

[J Price]

09:15 AM on 02/16/2012

I've been there....

[Jimmy7717]

08:14 PM on 02/11/2012

Auburn University is simply a WONDERFUL place. People often think of it as the ultra-rival to Alabama in football, but it's so much more than that. It is an excellent school academically, affordable, comfortable and fun, in a great little college town. Just a wonderful place to be. No wonder people say "War Eagle" and talk about the "Auburn Family."

[fasteddie1257]

05:53 PM on 02/11/2012

Home school...There are no jobs anyhow. Unless one desires the education of de-education.

[fasteddie1257]

05:48 PM on 02/11/2012

The question is....which one will you send your child to for indoctrination?

[imbeargrylls]

11:38 AM on 02/11/2012

seems that such a nice quality of life would be more evident to visitors of that town. Was not to me

[imbeargrylls]

11:37 AM on 02/11/2012

seems a school with such a great quality of life would attract better athletes.

[me3tv]

10:20 AM on 02/11/2012

Interesting fluff piece but these ARE nice campuses. I have visited several of them. There are many more with similar quality all over the country though. An interesting note on Auburn - it also recently made ranks in a magazine survey of best places to retire - a good mix of demographics in a small town with lots of academic dynamics and good climate.

[fasteddie1257]

05:50 PM on 02/11/2012

Roll Tide!!!

[proudtobeawareagle]

01:17 PM on 02/14/2012

Why is this response always necessary from UA-T fans? Can't possibly just celebrate with Auburn for making this list. But what can one expect from folks who claim more national championships in football than they have actually won. Auburn has 5 recognized by the NCAA but claims only the 2 that everyone recognizes, unlike UA-T, which has actually won 11 recognized championships but claim 15 or so and parade flags announcing them. War Eagle is a greeting; Roll Tide is an in-your-face statement announcing "I am better than everyone else."