The Princeton Review's Annual B- and Law School Rankings Now Out in its "Best 295 Business Schools" and "Best 173 Law Schools" (2016 Editions) Guidebooks and Website

NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The Princeton Review—well-known for its college rankings in dozens of categories based on how students rate their schools—today released the 2016 editions of its guides to business and law schools, which also include annual ranking lists uniquely based on student surveys.

"The Best 295 Business Schools" and "The Best 173 Law Schools" (Penguin Random House / Princeton Review Books, 2016 Editions, $26.99 and $24.99 respectively) each report lists of top 10 ranking schools in 11 categories.

The Princeton Review tallied its lists based on its surveys of 41,700 students attending schools in the books. The company surveyed 22,000 students attending the 295 business schools and 19,700 students attending the 173 law schools. The 80-question survey asked students to rate their schools on several topics and report on their experiences at them. Some ranking list tallies also factored in school-reported data.

Among the ranking list categories in each book and schools ranked #1 on them:

"Best Career Prospects"B-school: Stanford UniversityLaw school: University of Pennsylvania

"Best Professors"B-school: Indiana University—BloomingtonLaw school: Duke University

"Best Classroom Experience"B-school: Harvard UniversityLaw school: Stanford University

"Most Competitive Students" B-school: Acton School of BusinessLaw school: Baylor University

"Toughest to Get Into" (the only ranking list in the books based solely on school-reported data)B-school: Stanford UniversityLaw school: Yale University

Other lists in "The Best 295 Business Schools" and #1 schools on them include:

"Greatest Opportunity for Women"Simmons College School of Management

"Best Green MBA"University of Oregon

Other lists in "The Best 173 Law Schools" and #1 schools on them include:

"Most Conservative Students" – Ave Maria School of Law"Most Liberal Students" – Northeastern University

The guidebooks include other ranking list categories. Among them are the top 10 schools for "Best Administered,"  "Most Family Friendly," and "Greatest Opportunity for Minority Students."

The Princeton Review today posted all of the lists on its website at www.princetonreview.com/business-school-rankings/best-business-schools  and  www.princetonreview.com/law-school-rankings/best-law-schools. At these areas, users can read FAQs about the basis for each ranking list and access the company's detailed profiles of the schools.

"The schools we selected for these guides all offer academically outstanding degrees: we recommend them highly," said Robert Franek, SVP / Publisher, The Princeton Review.  "Their program offerings vary considerably, and we salute and highlight those distinctions in our profiles. Our purpose is not to rank schools hierarchically or crown any school as 'best' overall. Our goal is to provide school profiles combined with multiple rating scores and ranking lists to help applicants choose the best law or b-school for them."

The Princeton Review's ranking list tallies factor in data from its surveys of business and law school students completed at http://survey.review.com during the 2014-15, 2013-14, and 2012-13 school years. The survey asked students about their school's academics, student body and campus life, and their career plans. On average, 113 students at each law school and 74 students at each b-school were surveyed for the lists in the books' 2016 editions. All institutional data reported in these editions was collected in 2014-15.

The books' school profiles include admission, academics, financial aid, campus life, and career / employment information. The profiles also include school ratings (scores from 60 to 99) in five categories based primarily on institutional data. Among them are rating scores for "Admissions Selectivity" and Career" statistics (which factors in data on graduates' starting salaries and employment).

Today, The Princeton Review also published "The Best 167 Medical Schools" 2016 Edition ($24.99).  It does not have ranking lists. The Princeton Review is not affiliated with Princeton University.

About the Princeton Review

The Princeton Review is a leading tutoring, test prep and college admission services company. Every year, it helps millions of college- and graduate school-bound students achieve their education and career goals through online and in person courses delivered by a network of more than 4,000 teachers and tutors, online resources, and its more than 150 print and digital books published by Penguin Random House. The Princeton Review is headquartered in Natick, MA and is an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI).  For more information, visit www.princetonreview.com. Follow the company on Twitter @theprincetonrev.

About Penguin Random House / Princeton Review Books

Penguin Random House LLC (www.penguinrandomhouse.com) is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. Its 250 imprints publish more than 70,000 digital and 15,000 print books annually, with more than 100,000 eBooks available worldwide. Random House has been the exclusive trade book publisher of Princeton Review Books since 1986.  A part of the Random House Children's Books division, The Princeton Review Books line (www.randomhouse.com/princetonreview) numbers more than 150 titles and includes guides to major standardized tests, colleges and graduate schools, and study aid books. Follow Penguin Random House on Facebook at PenguinRandomHouse and Twitter @penguinrandom.

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