Hartsville, S.C. — Coker College is one of the top colleges in the Southeast according to The Princeton Review. The New York City-based education services company features Coker in its 2009 Best Colleges: Region by Region guide on www.princetonreview.com.

To identify the best regional colleges, The Princeton Review asks students to rate their own school in several areas — from the accessibility of their professors to quality of the campus food — and answer questions about themselves, their fellow students, and their campus life. This is the fifth consecutive year that Coker has been named “Best in the Southeast” by The Princeton Review.

The 139 colleges chosen for the “Best in the Southeast” designation are located in 12 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The Princeton Review also designated 212 colleges in the Northeast, 120 in the West, and 159 in the Midwest as best in their region. The 630 colleges The Princeton Review names represent only about 25% of the nation’s 2,500 four-year colleges.

Throughout 2008, Coker College is celebrating 100 years of excellence as a distinguished liberal arts college. For more information, call 843-383-8018 or visit www.coker.edu/100.

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July 29, 2008