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UMass again tops Princeton Review ‘Best Campus Food’ list

School has ranked at No. 1 for four straight years on the high-profile listing based on student ratings.

Mike Buzalka, Executive Features Editor

August 6, 2019

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The Princeton Review has released the 2020 edition of its Princeton Review Guide, which ranks 365 colleges and universities in a variety of areas based on the opinions of 140,000 students at the schools surveyed. Among the areas is the food on campus and the Review’s “Best Campus Food” list is based solely on how students answered the survey question, “How do you rate the food on your campus?” They indicated their answers on a five-point grid with choices ranging from “Poor” to “Excellent.”

For the fourth consecutive year, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst had the highest rating for its campus food.

Here are the top 20 schools in the 2019 Best Campus Food list.

1. University of Massachusetts-Amherst

2. Bowdoin College

3. Washington University in St Louis

4. Cornell University

5. Virginia Tech

6. Pitzer College

7. Vanderbilt University

8. James Madison University

9. St. Olaf College

10. University of Scranton

11. Gettysburg College

12. University of Richmond

13. College of the Atlantic

14. University of Dayton

15. Saint Anselm College

16. Rice University

17. Bryn Mawr College

18. Wheaton College (Ill.)

19 University of San Diego

20 High Point University

About the Author

Mike Buzalka

Executive Features Editor, Food Management

Mike Buzalka is executive features editor for Food Management and contributing editor to Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News. On Food Management, Mike has lead responsibility for compiling the annual Top 50 Contract Management Companies as well as the K-12, College, Hospital and Senior Dining Power Players listings. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Literature from John Carroll University. Before joining Food Management in 1998, he served as for eight years as assistant editor and then editor of Foodservice Distributor magazine. Mike’s personal interests range from local sports such as the Cleveland Indians and Browns to classic and modern literature, history and politics.

Mike Buzalka’s areas of expertise include operations, innovation and technology topics in onsite foodservice industry markets like K-12 Schools, Higher Education, Healthcare and Business & Industry.

Mike Buzalka’s experience:

Executive Features Editor, Food Management magazine (2010-present)

Contributing Editor, Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News (2016-present)

Associate Editor, Food Management magazine (1998-2010)

Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1997-1998)

Assistant Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1989-1997)

 

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