The New York City-based education services company selected the school as one of 212 institutions it recommends in its "Best in the Northeast" section on its PrincetonReview.com feature “2009 Best Colleges Region by Region.” It also profiles the school in its book, "The Best Northeastern Colleges: 2009 Edition."

"We commend all of the schools we name this year as our 'regional best' colleges primarily for their excellent academic programs,” says Robert Franek, Princeton Review's V.P., Publishing. “We selected them based on institutional data we collected from several hundred schools in each region, our visits to schools over the years, and the opinions of independent and high school-based college advisors whose recommendations we invite. We also take into account what each school’s customers – their students – report to us about their campus experiences at their schools on our 80-question student survey. Finally, we work to have our annual roster of 'regional best' colleges present a range of institutions in each region that varies by size, selectivity, character and locale."

The 212 colleges The Princeton Review chose for its "Best in the Northeast" website designations and “The Best Northeastern Colleges” book are located in eleven states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia. The colleges named "regional best(s)" across the county represent about 25% (one out of four) of the nation's 2,500 four-year colleges.

The Princeton Review survey for this project asks students to rate their own schools on several issues -- from the accessibility of their professors to quality of the campus food -- and answer questions about themselves, their fellow students, and their campus life. Actual comments from surveyed students pepper each Princeton Review college profile on its website and in the book. Some student comments quoted in the profile on Seton Hill are: "walking around campus guarantees about five people saying ‘hi’ to you," and “a great liberal arts curriculum.” Seton Hill students describe their classes as “intimate” and “challenging.”

"The Best Northeastern Colleges -- 2009 Edition" is the fifth edition of the book and part of a line of nearly 200 Princeton Review books published by Random House.

The Princeton Review (www.PrincetonReview.com) is a New York-based company known for its test preparation, college admission and other education services. It is not affiliated with Princeton University and it is not a magazine.