UND Ranked 3rd Healthiest College

[GeauxSioux]

The 25 Healthiest Colleges in the U.S.

Students aiming to eat healthy will love UND’s “guiding stars” rating system, which serves as the yellow brick road to healthy dining options. And for the price of $4,000 per year, students get unlimited access to the dining halls, which support local North Dakota farmers. (For the record, the national average for the cost of dining in 2009-2010 was $4,300, which doesn’t necessarily include unlimited meals.) Recreation facilities are even more highly rated on College Prowler — as well they should be. The $20 million gym, opened in 2006, was a gift from the students, who voted to up tuition for six years to pay for it. The gym offers a huge array of free fitness and health assessments and just about all the equipment we could ever want. Our favorite thing about UND, though, is its7 Dimensions approach to wellness, which includes often-overlooked factors like emotional, environmental, and spiritual health.

Top 5

UCLA

Stanford

UND

Colby College

UGA

[ScottM]

It was pretty healthy when I was on campus too. I remember working out my upper body at the Down Under for Buck Pitchers at 3 PM each Friday. Occasionally, we'd have to swim when somebody "Sank the Ship". We'd later run the stairs to Sensations for 2-1 mixed drinks and practice "Irish yoga" to regain our balance. We would then walk, run, jog, stagger or whatever to Frenchy's for a few sets of 16 oz mugs. And then when we were throughly gassed, we'd reward ourselves for a great workout with drinks at Whitey's and/or the Antique and Blue Moose. Take that P-90X ...

[The Sicatoka]

I remember working out my upper body at the Down Under for Buck Pitchers at 3 PM each Friday.

Ah yes, the 12 oz. curl ...

[VMeister]

Top 5

UCLA

Stanford

UND

Colby College

UGA

Now the pressure is on to stay ahead of Colby.

[The Sicatoka]

Now the pressure is on to stay ahead of Colby.

Nope. Stanford is looking over their shoulder and hearing foot steps.

[IrishSiouxFan]

This survey can't be accurate it doesn't mention NDSU Que Bison trolls in 3...2...1...

[mizzou/sioux]

Nope. Stanford is looking over their shoulder and hearing foot steps.

The way I look at it is this, it's always good to be ranked third best in the nation along with the likes of UCLA and Stanford. Somebody somewhere at any rate is thinking we're doing some things right.

[tnt]

I can hear the football recruiting pitch now, "If you want to go to Alabama, that's fine, but how are you going to get to the NFL without a healthy environment?"