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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

For more information, please contact:
Chris Weinkopf, Executive Director of College Relations
805-421-5926 | pr@thomasaquinas.edu

College Tops Lists for “Happiest Students,” “Most Religious Students,”  “Great Financial Aid,” “Professors Get High Marks” & “Most Conservative Students” 

SANTA PAULA, CA & NORTHFIELD, MA — ���ϲ����� continues to offer one of the best undergraduate educations in the country, according to the Princeton Review.

“We salute ���ϲ����� for its outstanding academics and many other impressive offerings,” says Robert Franek, editor-in-chief of The Princeton Review and lead author of the 2025 edition of . “It is one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduates.”

The Best 390 Colleges integrates data from more than 2,000 institutions with surveys of more than 165,000 students nationwide, featuring only the top 14 percent of America’s four-year institutions. Notably, it includes 50 lists of “Top 25” colleges based on a survey it conducted of 168,000 U.S. college students. ���ϲ����� ranked No. 7 for “Great Financial Aid,” No. 5 for “Happiest Students” and “Most Religious Students,” No. 4 for “Professors Get High Marks,” and No. 1 for “Most Conservative Students.”

That last designation has generated   nationwide, particularly because contemporary politics are absent from the college’s classical, Great Books curriculum. “Because TAC students are serious about their faith, they care deeply about the unborn and hold countercultural views on a number of social issues that qualify as conservative in contemporary political parlance,” says Executive Director for College Relations Chris Weinkopf. “The college aims to uphold the Church’s intellectual tradition and moral teachings, which is conservative in the truest sense of the word.”

Additionally, the guide also features  from the college’s students on academics, the student body, and campus life. Students mention their “brilliant, yet down-to-earth tutors” who are “are always available to talk and are open to any and all questions [students] may have.” They see that their peers are “animated by a definitively Catholic spirit” and have “a strong desire to do good and help others.”

“We are pleased that, once again, The Princeton Review has featured ���ϲ����� in its annual guide of the country’s best colleges,” says Mr. Weinkopf. “We find the high scores for our financial aid program and exemplary tutors especially gratifying. Our goal has always been to provide an excellent, authentically Catholic education at the most affordable price, and The Princeton Review’s latest profile strongly suggests that we are succeeding.”

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A four-year, co-educational institution with campuses in California and Massachusetts, ���ϲ����� has developed over the past 50 years a solid reputation for academic excellence in the United States and abroad. It is highly ranked by organizations such as The Princeton Review, U. S. News, and Kiplinger. At ���ϲ����� all students acquire a broad and fully integrated liberal education. The college offers one, four-year, classical curriculum that spans the major arts and sciences. Instead of reading textbooks, students read the original works of the greatest thinkers in Western civilization — the Great Books — in all the major disciplines: mathematics, natural science, literature, philosophy, and theology. The academic life of the college is conducted under the light of the Catholic faith and flourishes within a close-knit community, supported by a vibrant spiritual life. Graduates consistently excel in the many world-class institutions at which they pursue graduate degrees in fields such as law, medicine, business, theology and education. .