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Princeton Review: Wellesley College Has Country's Best Professors

The results were announced on "The Today Show" Tuesday, Aug. 2.

’s professors are tops in the country, according to a recent Princeton Review survey.

The student to faculty ration at Wellesley College is 8 to 1, and according to Robert Franek of the Princeton Review, Wellesley’s rank should come as no surprise.

“Professors at Wellesley are only teaching two classes a semester so they can devote their entire time to undergraduates,” he said on NBC's "The Today Show" Tuesday. “No T.A.s teaching classes at Wellesley.”

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The survey, which polled 122,000 students at 376 colleges, will be included in the 2012 edition of Princeton Review’s annual guidebook, “The Best 376 Colleges,” according to a Wellesley College press release.

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