Princeton is the sixth most stressful college in the United States, according to The Daily Beast, a news and opinion website.
The top five most stressful colleges are Stanford, Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Penn and Harvard, the website said.
Prompted by the recent Cornell suicides and psychological studies of college students’ stress levels, the Daily Beast investigated the level of stress at the nation’s top 50 universities, as ranked by US News & World Report.
The five criteria for the rankings were cost, competitiveness, acceptance rate, engineering programs and crime on campus.
According to the online post, financial concerns induce high levels of stress, and competition tends to attract more type-A students, which increases the stress at an institution, while low acceptance rates tend to foster greater competition. As for engineering, Keith Anderson of the American College Health Association noted that science and engineering students tend to have higher stress levels than other students.
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