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UMass Amherst tops the list (again) for best campus food, according to The Princeton Review

Ken Toong, assistant vice chancellor of UMass Auxiliary Enterprises, which includes Advertisement 'This achievement is a testament to the dedication and passion of our students, faculty members, staff, culinary team and university administration,' Toong said in a statement. The Princeton Review rankings cover 50 categories, including LGBTQ-Friendly (No. 1 was College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine) and Best College Newspaper (Emerson College ranked No. 2, after Columbia University) and Best College Theater (Emerson College snagged second place for this, too, behind Wagner College in New York). The rankings were based on surveys of 170,000 students at 391 schools, and how those students answered specific questions about their schools. The rankings can be viewed online and in 'The Best 391 Colleges: 2026 Edition' book that went on sale Tuesday. Rob Franek, editor-in-chief of The Princeton Review and the book's lead author, said the colleges that make the ranking lists are 'a truly select group' that represent about 15 percent of nearly 2,400 four-year institutions in the country. Advertisement 'The colleges that make our ranking lists do so entirely as a result of their own students' opinions of them,' Franek said in a statement. 'We don't rank colleges based on our opinion of them nor would we crown a school 'best' overall. It is what the students attending the colleges in this book tell us about their experiences at their schools that determines on which lists the schools appear in our book.' Emily Sweeney can be reached at