Academy ranked among nation's best colleges

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U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo., (AFNS) --  The U.S. Air Force Academy's professors are among the most accessible in the nation, according to The Best 371 Colleges guide released by Princeton Review July 28.

Faculty availability is an expectation at a military service academy, and the Academy ranks fourth in the nation in professor availability. 

At the Academy, the student-faculty ratio is 9:1, the average class size is 20, 100 percent of the faculty is full-time and zero classes are taught by teaching assistants.

Several academic departments here also staff extra instruction laboratories throughout the academic day, with at least one professor available each class period to help cadets tackle questions arising from their latest lessons.

The Academy also came out in numerous top-20 rankings in the nation, including:
-- No. 4 Don't Inhale
-- No. 6 Stone-Cold Sober Schools
-- No. 8 Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution
-- No. 11 Most Conservative Students
-- No. 11 Everyone Plays Intramural Sports
-- No. 19 Scotch and Soda, Hold The Scotch 

The Princeton Review features the Academy and other local colleges in The Best 371 Colleges, the new 2010 edition of its annual "best colleges" guide. The guide uses online student surveys in 62 categories to assess the academic, administrative, quality of life, social, extracurricular and other aspects of life at American colleges.

The Academy's fall semester begins Aug. 6.