SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University has again been named one of the “Best in the Northeast” universities by The Princeton Review.

The announcement cites 226 colleges and universities and marks the sixth consecutive year SRU has been included on the list.

The list is compiled to help college applicants better understand their choices and the benefits of attending schools they may be considering.

The “northeast” designation includes schools in 11 states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Pennsylvania along with the District of Columbia.

SLIPPERY ROCK — The Chronicle of Higher Education, a weekly national news and job-information publication for college and university faculty members, administrators and students, has again named Slippery Rock University a “Great College to Work For.”SRU was the only State System of Higher Education university to earn the honor.SRU was recognized in the “Compensation and Benefits” category.The Chronicle's results were based on responses from nearly 45,000 people from 300 institutions, including 91 four-year public colleges and universities.The survey gave faculty, staff and administrators 60 statements asking them to use a five-point scale, ranging from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree” to reply.Colleges were placed in one of three groups based on overall student enrollment.

GROVE CITY — Grove City College is among the nation's elite institutions of higher learning, according to Forbes' 2013 list of America's Top Colleges.The college was ranked in the top third of the Forbes list, which covers 650 schools that the business magazine selected for review. Grove City was ranked 192. Forbes also ranked the college at 85 in the “best of” the Northeast and 137 among private colleges.The college also has been recognized by The Princeton Review in its “The 378 Best Colleges” guide, putting it in the top 13 percent of American institutions of higher learning.Forbes partnered with the Washington, D.C.-based Center for College Affordability and Productivity to create the list.

GROVE CITY — Grove City College is the best school in the country for home schoolers, according to SuperScholar.org, an online source for consumers seeking the best college fit.In compiling its list of the Ten Best Schools for Homeschoolers, the website looked at the educational and cultural factors that influence a family's decision to homeschool their children and how a college or university supports those values.Grove City College topped the list.According to SuperScholar, “It is uniformly excellent academically, maintains its theological heritage without being dogmatic, and stresses interesting social and political distinctives, such as the Austrian approach to free-market economics.”