Things You Might (or might not) Want To Know About Colleges

Last year in parenthesis.

Tastiest campus food: Wheaton College in Illinois (2008: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg)
Best dorms: Loyola College in Maryland (2008: Smith College, Northampton, Mass.)
Most beautiful campus: Princeton University (2008: Sweet Briar College in Virginia)
Best career/job placement services: Northeastern University, Boston (2008: University of Texas at Austin)
Most conservative students: Texas A&M University, College Station (2008: Thomas Aquinas College in California)
Most liberal students: Occidental College, Los Angeles (2008: Warren Wilson College, Asheville, N.C.)
Most politically active students: American University, Washington, DC (2008: George Washington University, DC)
Top Party School: University of Florida, Gainesville (2008 West Virginia University in Morgantown)
Race/class relations friendliest: Pitzer College in California (Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga.)
Gay community most accepted: Emerson College, Boston (2008 Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn.)