Maine college tops Princeton Review's list of greenest colleges

For the fifth consecutive year, the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, has been ranked the nation's greenest college by The Princeton Review.

Of the 695 higher education institutions taking part in the review, 416 ranked high enough in sustainability efforts to be included in the Review's 2021 Guide to Green Colleges.

College of the Atlantic has been singled out for being the first college in the United States specifically founded to focus on the relationship between humans and the environment. In 2007, it became the first carbon-neutral college in the nation.

The Review determined the rankings after examining a combination of school-reported data and student opinion from the 695 higher education institutions.

Data from the student survey included student assessments of the influence of sustainability issues on academic and campus experiences; administrator and student support for environmental awareness and conservation efforts; and the visibility and impact of student environmental groups on the campus.

Here are the 10 colleges rated as the greenest:

1.  College of the Atlantic                    Bar Harbor ME
2.  Oberlin College                                 Oberlin OH
3.  Middlebury College                          Middlebury VT
4.  State University of New
     York - College of Environmental
     Science and Forestry                      Syracuse NY            
5.  Pitzer College                                   Claremont CA
6.  Dickinson College                            Carlisle PA
7.  Chatham University                         Pittsburgh PA
8.  Cornell University                             Ithaca NY
9.  Whitman College                             Walla Walla WA
10. Colorado State University             Fort Collins CO