Randolph ranked among The Princeton Review’s Top 50 Green Colleges

Randolph College has once again been named one of the nation’s most “green” colleges, according to new rankings released by The Princeton Review.

The College was included in The Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges: 2026 Edition, which recognizes the 388 most environmentally responsible colleges in the nation.

Randolph was ranked 14th, the only Virginia institution to make the top 20, alongside the likes of New York University, University of California-Irvine, Bates College, and the University of Cincinnati. 

The Princeton Review chose schools based on surveys conducted in 2024-25 with administrators about their institutions’ sustainability-related policies, practices, and programs.  The company also surveyed students attending the colleges about their experiences. 

Green Ratings, developed to provide a measure of a school’s performance as an environmentally aware and prepared institution, are reported on a scale of 60 to 99. Randolph scored a perfect green rating of 99. 

The Princeton Review is seeing substantive interest among college applicants in attending green colleges. Of the more than 7,000 college-bound students the company polled for its 2025 College Hopes & Worries Survey, 59% said having information about a college’s commitment to the environment would affect their decision to apply to or attend a school. 

“Since we debuted our Green Guide in 2010, we have seen dramatic growth in the number of colleges committing to sustainability practices—from constructing green-certified buildings to sourcing food locally,” said Rob Franek, editor-in-chief of The Princeton Review. “We applaud each one of the colleges that made our Guide’s 2026 edition, and we highly recommend these schools to students who want their ‘best-fit’ college to also be a green one.”

The Green Rating scores appear in each school’s profile on The Princeton Review website and in profiles included in the 2026 edition of The Best 391 Colleges.