CANTON -- St. Lawrence University’s alumni network earned a No. 3 ranking for the third time in four years from The Princeton Review and was included on their list of best value colleges in its most recent publication, The Best Value Colleges: 200 Schools with Exceptional ROI for Your Tuition Investment.

The University also ranked seventh on The Princeton Review’s Top 20 Best Private Schools for Internships list and 20th on the Top 20 Best Private Schools for Making an Impact.

Throughout the last year, members of the St. Lawrence community have reimagined what the world will need from St. Lawrence and its graduates for years to come. Among the many changes being implemented is a bold and comprehensive approach to career development at St. Lawrence in the new Center for Career Excellence, formerly known as Career Services. The Center, announced in October 2020 and made possible by a generous $3 million gift from alumna Hilary Ayn Valentine, Class of 1989, will link students, even before they matriculate, with career possibilities. The Center will go well beyond what students have turned to Career Services for in the past and will ensure students graduate with the resiliency, industry knowledge, practical experience, and skills needed to tackle the world’s most complex problems.

According to the publication, the Best Alumni Network ranking is based on students’ ratings of alumni activity and visibility on campus, while the Best Schools for Internships list is based on students’ ratings of accessibility of internship placement at their school. More than 94 percent of recent St. Lawrence University graduates were either employed or attending graduate school less than one year after graduation and 73 percent took part in at least one internship experience.