The Princeton Review names Nazareth to its 2026 Mental Health Services Honor Roll

Nazareth University is among just 30 institutions nationwide named to The Princeton Review’s 2026 Mental Health Services Honor Roll for its strong commitment to its students’ mental health and well-being. Nazareth was selected based on data from The Princeton Review’s 2025 Campus Mental Health Survey, which polled 540 colleges and universities about their counseling, mental health, and wellness services. 

The Princeton Review also polled students at more than 300 colleges about their awareness of their school’s mental health services. The honor roll is created in partnership with the Ruderman Family Foundation – an internationally recognized organization that works to end the stigma associated with mental health and promote awareness of mental health resources on college campuses. 

The Princeton Review does not rank the schools based on their mental health services. This honor roll appears in alphabetical order. Each school displays:

• Overall administrative support for campus mental health and well-being through its policies, including commitments to staffing and student suppor
• Students have a campus quality of life that is both healthy and attentive to overall well-being.
• Empowering its students to address their own mental health through education programs and peer-to-peer offerings.

Nazareth has spent the last several years building its Well-Being Collective. After seeing the urgent and critical mental health needs for students nationwide, Nazareth University expanded its commitment to support students’ mental health and wellness and to enhance suicide prevention. In 2023, the university pursued and secured a $300,000, three-year federal grant for this campus-wide Mental Health Awareness Across Campus (MHAAC) project. Nazareth was one of only 22 colleges and universities nationwide to be awarded the grant from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

“Nazareth’s inclusion in The Princeton Review’s Mental Health Services Honor Roll reflects our shared commitment to supporting the whole student,” said Susan Quinn, FNP-C, director of health & counseling. “Through coordinated efforts in healthcare, counseling, wellness outreach, prevention initiatives, and peer-led programs, we are reducing stigma, improving access to care, and empowering students to support their own well-being and one another.”

“This recognition highlights the dedication of our entire campus community to fostering a culture where mental health and overall wellness are prioritized and openly supported,” said John Rigney, LCSW, assistant director of wellness outreach & prevention. “At Nazareth, we are not simply responding to the mental health needs of today, we are shaping a future where every student has the strength, tools, and support to rise and thrive — today and for a lifetime.”

With funding from the grant, Nazareth has developed additional student mental health initiatives:

• A four-year collaboration with the nationally recognized Jed Foundation for strategic planning expertise to build on existing strengths and improve mental health and connections across the campus community, for healthier, safer students
• You at Naz: a web-based platform that guides students to track and set goals for their well-being
• Added a suicide prevention coordinator position and trained more than 300 students and 150 faculty, staff, and coaches in mental health, alcohol, and other drugs training
• Mental health and wellness-themed speakers invited to campus to combat mental health stigma and provide resources
• Integrated mental health into the orientation and the first-year student experience course
• Established a peer educator program focused on the 10 dimensions of wellness
• Hosted its first-ever Fresh Check Day — info/screenings on suicide awareness

Nazareth University is an inclusive community of inspired learners, educators, and changemakers who for 100 years have been driven by a bold commitment to action, empathy, equity, and leading innovation for the common good. Impact experiences are at the heart of a Nazareth education, preparing each student to discover within themselves the potential to cultivate positive change in their life's work, in any career field, and in a world that is constantly evolving and infinitely interconnected.

Our broad academic offerings present a range of study options typical of larger universities, yet achieved in our supportive campus culture. Nearly 2,100 undergrad and 600 graduate students enroll in degree and certificate programs and engage in collaborative, transformative learning experiences, preparing for the professions and society of today and tomorrow. In a learning community that purposefully integrates liberal arts and professional programs, Nazareth University graduates are able to launch a lifetime of impactful leadership in communities and workplaces near and far.

• published: 2025 November
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