The Greenest Colleges: Princeton Review List

Is the environment important to you? It might be wise to consider a "green" college.

The Princeton Review got together with the U.S. Green Building Council's Center for Green Schools and made a list of the 322 green colleges in the country. These colleges weren't ranked, so we took a random sampling colleges and made our list. To access the full list, click here.

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Comments

[Anika Manzoor]

04:06 PM on 04/19/2012

For those wondering why your school wasn't on the list, check out the FULL on here: http://www.princetonreview.com/green-schools-full-list.aspx

[driverstest]

11:41 AM on 04/19/2012

How about our colleges focus on lowering tuition costs first along with provided a good education. If you cannot afford the education, being green hardly changes that fact!

[GJR227]

12:55 PM on 04/18/2012

Greenest colleges in the country. McGill? Montreal?

[Ben Braden]

12:26 PM on 04/18/2012

So, Ball State University creates the nation's largest ground-source, closed-loop geothermal energy system and is not mentioned on this list? http://cms.bsu.edu/About/Geothermal.aspx

[shaftytim]

12:11 PM on 04/18/2012

dude- this list is ridiculous- QUEENS COLLEGE!?!?!??!? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

i went to QC and the place is far from green. my undergrad alma mater however, WARREN WILSON, was more than deserving to be on this list (and is normally featured in these sorts of lists).

WWC > QC

/thread

[nightfly4257]

11:46 AM on 04/18/2012

How come Greendale Community College was not on the list. Was it because the paint for the paint ball guns contain lead?

[TSRVT]

11:30 AM on 04/18/2012

These are just a random sampling? What on earth is the purpose of this article? Either really rank them or list them all. What a joke.

[Aimless Peacock]

10:53 AM on 04/18/2012

Wow... EIU, my alma matter is there. I'm actually somewhat surprised. Especially since UVM, where I completed graduate school, is not on the list. Perhaps EIU has made great strides since I graduated, but UVM seemed far "greener" from my perspective...

[ckilgore]

09:32 AM on 04/19/2012

I work at EIU now, and I am not sure when you graduated but great strides have been made recently. You can check some of them out here: http://www.eiu.edu/sustainability/

Also, you do have to apply to be included on the list, so some schools that may indeed be more "green" may not be on here if they don't throw their hat in the ring.

[pam327]

10:37 AM on 04/18/2012

What about Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa NC???????

[shaftytim]

12:12 PM on 04/18/2012

i know brah.

wwc alum here.

was surprised to not see it on the list.

[Nation Loused]

10:25 AM on 04/18/2012

That's great-

Wouldn't they be upset to know how many of those are heated by equipment built by Koch?

[Jackalheadedgod]

10:05 AM on 04/18/2012

Really? Is it because they used some so-called sustainable building materials and kept the proper records? Every one of the buildings depicted rely heavily on HVAC, don't appear to modern enough to effectively utilize "daylighting", etc. I am skeptical, particularly when I know for a fact that at UC Santa Cruz there are only one or two air conditioned buildings.

I do not trust the USGBC. It is expensive, prohibitive, and murky in its methods. Here in California Title 24 essentially has been accomplishing the same things well in advance of this arcane accounting scheme. From what I have seen LEED has given us machines to live and work in while abandoning the craft and art of design. RIP, FLW; long live Dubai. Yuck.

Cheers,
Jack