College students are heading back to class next week, with many moving back this weekend, and the students heading back to Vanderbilt University are - supposedly - the "happiest" in the country.
It's hard to measure feelings but according to the Princeton Review, Vanderbilt has the "happiest students."
"You're always learning things. And I feel like when you're learning things you feel like you're growing and developing as a person. And that's very fulfilling right," said Vanderbilt Senior Noelle Yoo.
The annual review surveys 137,000 students from more than 380 schools on a number of questions from academics to social life. While school administrators, like Vanessa Beasley, said they're of course happy to be number-one, they want students to be their authentic selves.
"Part of being happy is that you can be sad. And since we have such a wonderful first-year program set up to helping students through that transition, we talk a lot about the fact that you're not in a place where you look around and think 'Oh no if I'm sad I'm the only one. You're in a place where everybody is going through a transition together. And it's really important that we don't put pressure on our students to pretend to be happy all the time,'" said Beasley, Dean of the Martha Rivers Ingram Commons at Vanderbilt .
Vanderbilt was also named number-two for "great financial aid" and "best quality of life." For a full list of college rankings click here.
