The 2009 Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, released earlier this week, ranked the University 61st out of the 141 colleges and universities assessed nationwide, a steep drop from the University’s 29th-place ranking in 2008. The fourth annual report card evaluates access to sexual health resources and information on the campuses of major NCAA colleges and universities.
In 2007, Princeton ranked 34th on the Trojan report card, and in 2006, it received its highest ranking, sixth.
The annual rankings are composed from surveys conducted by the independent research firm Sperling’s BestPlaces and are based on students’ opinions of their school’s health resources, contraception and condom availability and cost, availability of sexual assault programs, quality of awareness programs and website usability.
“Sperling’s BestPlaces analyzed data from campus health centers and student opinion polls across 13 separate categories,” a Trojan press release stated. “Based on this analysis, each category was assigned a letter grade and a cumulative GPA was calculated, based on a four point scale.” This year, the University scored a 2.69 on that scale.
This is the first year in which three Ivy League schools were ranked in the top 10. Columbia was ranked fourth with a 3.24 score, while Cornell was placed eighth and Brown ninth. Yale took 15th place, Dartmouth came in at 19th, and Penn came in at 45th. Harvard, ranked 62nd, was the only Ivy League school ranked below Princeton.
The University of South Carolina came in first, displacing Stanford, which came in first last year and was ranked second this year.
Third place went to University of Connecticut, and Columbia and Florida Atlantic University rounded out the top five.
“Trust played a pivotal role in this year’s findings, with centers that had higher levels of trust in student polls, like South Carolina’s, tending to score much higher,” Bert Sperling, president of Sperling’s BestPlaces, said in the press release.
In 2008, then-University Health Services (UHS) interim executive director Janet Finnie ’84 declined to comment on the rankings, saying that “no formulaic ranking can reflect the distinctiveness of any program.”
Information regarding sexual health is available on the University’s website, in the UHS Guide and at various campus events, Finnie said at the time. She added that RCAs are educated about STIs and how to access sexual health and wellness services at UHS.
Bruce Tetreault, group product manager for Trojan Brand Condoms, said the study aims to “increase awareness, spark conversation and get people talking about and advocating positively for sexual health on college campuses.”
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