The Princeton Review's Guide to 286 Green Colleges is out and it includes several schools in Maryland.
Officials there say they "recognize that there is a rising interest among students in attending colleges that practice, teach, and support environmentally responsible choices."
They talked to 16,000 college applicants and their parents for their 2009 College Hopes & Worries Survey, and found 66 percent of respondents wanted information on a college's commitment to the environment. A quarter said the information would help them decide where to attend.
The U.S. Green Building Council, the group that rates buildings as green with its LEED certification, partnered on the college ratings. So the ratings were focused largely on design and construction on sustainable infrastructure.
Maryland did pretty well, with eight green campuses: Frostburg State University; Goucher College; Johns Hopkins University; Salisbury University; St. Mary's College of Maryland; Towson University;
University of Maryland, Baltimore County; and University of Maryland, College Park.
Bigger states had far more, such as California, New York and Massachusetts. But several states had only one and some states were missing.
Anyone out there choose a school for its green attributes? How important is this?