Florida Tech: one of just 13 Florida schools on the 2024 list
BREVARD COUNTY • MELBOURNE, FLORIDA – Florida Tech was named a 2024 ‘Green College’ by The Princeton Review, indicating the school has “exceptional programs, policies, and practices related to sustainability and the environment.”
This is the seventh consecutive year the university earned this distinction thanks to the efforts of many around campus. Florida Tech is one of just 13 Florida schools on the 2024 list.
Based primarily on the company’s 2022-23 surveys of administrators and students at 683 colleges about sustainability and sustainability-related campus experiences, the 2024 edition of The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges features 522 schools.
The company editors analyzed more than 25 data points from the surveys and sustainability credit reporting to tally Green Rating scores for the schools on a scale of 60 to 99. Colleges that earned a Green Rating of 80 or higher were selected for the 2024 edition.
Florida Tech received a Green Rating of 92, up two points from its 2022 rating.
The Review noted a series of sustainable practices and related programs in place at the Melbourne university, including a sustainability focused degree program, a free campus shuttle and multiple student organizations working on sustainability issues, such as the solar charging tables with motion-sensing night lights (pictured above) placed around campus through funding from the Student Government Association.
“With increasing concern about climate change, particularly among younger people who will be most affected by its long-term impact, we are seeing increasing interest among college applicants in attending green colleges,” said Rob Franek, editor-in-chief, The Princeton Review.
Of 8,800 applicants the company polled for its 2023 College Hopes & Worries Survey, 69% said having information about a college’s commitment to the environment would affect their decision to apply to or attend the school, he noted.
“Since we debuted our Green Guide 14 years ago, we have also seen dramatic growth in the number of colleges committing to sustainability-related practices—from sourcing food from local purveyors to constructing LEED-certified buildings to making fossil fuel-free commitments,” Franek added. “We are proud to shine our light on these exceptional schools. We recommend them enthusiastically to students who want their ‘best-fit’ college also to be a green one.”
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