Middle Tennessee State University is among 391 colleges and universities recognized among the nation’s best by The Princeton Review, one of the nation’s leading education services companies.
The 2026 ranking is based on data from the company’s surveys of 170,000 students at the 391 schools. Students attending the schools rate their own colleges on dozens of topics and report on their campus experiences at them.
Only two public universities in Tennessee — MTSU and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville — made the list. The other three state schools noted are private schools: Vanderbilt University, the University of the South and Rhodes College…