Academy ranks top in professor availability for 2nd year Published Aug. 22, 2006 U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AFPN) -- The U.S. Air Force Academy's professors are the most accessible in the nation for the second year in a row, according to The Best 361 Colleges text, released today by the Princeton Review. Faculty availability is an expectation at the academy, where the student-faculty ratio is 8:1, average class size is 20, and no classes are taught by teaching assistants. 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 several other top-20 rankings in the nation, including: #3 Don't inhale #7 Stone-cold sober schools #9 Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution #11 Students most nostalgic for Reagan #13 Everyone plays intramural sports #14 Their students never stop studying #15 Scotch and soda, hold the scotch The Princeton Review features the academy and other local colleges in The Best 361 Colleges, the 2007 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.