Date: Jul 27, 2010

Hofstra University Included in Fiske Guide to Colleges 2011

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, HEMPSTEAD, NY … The Fiske Guide announced that Hofstra University will be included the revised and updated 2011 edition of The Fiske Guide to Colleges (9781402209611; July 2011) by Edward B. Fiske. The book features more than 300 of the country’s best and most interesting colleges and universities.

“We are proud to be included in this year’s Fiske Guide once again. This guide provides an independent review of colleges to help prospective students and their parents make solid decisions about their higher education goals. We know that Hofstra is a great place to earn your degree, but it helps when an outside source concurs with our belief.”

For more than 25 years, students and their families have looked to The Fiske Guide to Colleges to help make the most intelligent educational investment they can. Information in this independent college guide book includes student body, academics, social life, and financial aid.

About the Author
Edward B. Fiske served for 17 years as Education Editor of The New York Times, during which time he realized that college-bound students and their families needed better information on which to base their educational choices. He wrote The Fiske Guide to Colleges to help them.

About Hofstra
Hofstra University is a dynamic private institution where students can choose from about 140 undergraduate and 150 graduate programs in liberal arts and sciences, business; engineering; communication; education, health and human services; and honors studies, as well as a School of Law. The School of Medicine, in partnership with North Shore-LIJ Health Systems, is scheduled to enroll its first class in fall 2011. Home to the final 2008 presidential debate, the Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency and the award-winning Educate ‘08 civic education series. Hofstra will launch a year-long celebration of its 75th anniversary in September 2010.