Fiske Guide to Colleges, 2019. (Image provided)
SUNY Geneseo appears in the 2019 edition of Fiske Guide to Colleges. Inclusion in the highly respected publication as a “best and most interesting” college is based on the quality of academic offerings and includes students’ social and quality-of-life ratings.
Updated yearly, the latest edition says that “Geneseo offers a serious academic environment at an affordable price.”
It also takes notice of Geneseo’s strong sense of community. “Geneseo students are active in the community, volunteering 200,000 hours of service each year through annual days of service, events like Relay For Life, and numerous student groups, including Alpha Phi Omega, the co-ed service fraternity. Students also look forward to the annual Spring Fest and monthly multicultural club dinners and shows.”
In sum, the guide says that SUNY Geneseo is a college that offers “the best of two worlds.”
“Given its size, professors can provide the kind of personal attention normally seen only at private liberal arts colleges; because of its public status, that attention comes at a bargain price,” the guide concludes. “These factors have made it more difficult to get in — and, it turns out, getting in is only half the battle. ‘Students are very serious about their education,’ says a sophomore. ‘Once you are here, you must work hard.’”
Fiske Guide to Colleges was created by former New York Times education editor Edward Fiske, who launched the guide to provide better information on educational choices for college-bound students and their families.