Morningside College is one of the 159 colleges that The Princeton Review has named to the “Best in the Midwest” section of its website feature “2015 Best Colleges: Region by Region.”

Morningside College is one of the 159 colleges that The Princeton Review has named to the “Best in the Midwest” section of its website feature “2015 Best Colleges: Region by Region.”

The Princeton Review has designated Morningside as a “Best in the Midwest” college every year since 2003.

The 159 colleges The Princeton Review selected for this year’s “Best in the Midwest” list are located in twelve states: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

The Princeton Review chooses the schools based on institutional data it collects on colleges and universities in each region, visits to schools and the opinions of college counselors and advisors.  The Princeton Review also takes into account the results of a survey completed by students at each of the schools.

The Princeton Review also designated 226 colleges in the Northeast, 124 in the West, and 139 in the Southeast as best in their locales on the company’s “2015 Best Colleges: Region by Region” lists.  The 648 colleges named “regional bests” represent about 25 percent of the nation’s four-year colleges. The Princeton Review does not rank the colleges.

The Princeton Review is a nationally known educational services company.  It is not affiliated with Princeton University.