Penn State tops Princeton Review's party school rankings (Top 10 listed here)

New York Daily News ^ | 7/28/2009

[SeekAndFind]

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania — Penn State University is now the No. 1 U.S. party school.

The school known partly for its football tailgate weekends and fraternity and sorority scene snatched the title away from the University of Florida in the 2009 Princeton Review survey of 122,000 students nationwide. Florida, last year's winner, finished second in the annual survey released Monday.

It's the first time Penn State has finished first in the dubious category. The school has been on the list the last seven years and ranked third in 2008. The listing covers Penn State's main University Park campus in State College.

The rankings were part of the Princeton Review's "The Best 371 Colleges" annual guide.

Guide author Robert Franek said every school in the survey offered "great academics." But the guide does not rank schools academically, Franek said in a statement, because the goal is to "help students find and get into the best school for them ... It's all about fit."

After Penn State and Florida, the top five institutions on the party schools list were the University of Mississippi, the University of Georgia, and Ohio University-Athens

[SeekAndFind]

TOP 10 PARTY SCHOOLS :

The nation's top party schools, according to Princeton Review's 2009 survey of 122,000 students.

1. Penn State University, State College, Pa.

2. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.

3. University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.

4. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.

5. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

6. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.

7. University of Texas, Austin, Texas

8. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.

9. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla.

10. University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Cali

11. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.

12. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

13. Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.

14. Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.

15. DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.

16. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.

17. Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.

18. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D.

19. Tulane University, New Orleans, La.

20. Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.

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TOP 20 STONE COLD SOBER SCHOOLS :

1. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

2. Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.

3. U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn.

4. College of the Ozarks, Point Lockout, Mo.

5. Grove City College, Grove City, Pa.

6. U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo.

7. U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.

8. Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

9. Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, Calif.

10. Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich.

11. U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.

12. Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga.

13. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, Mass.

14. City University of New York-Queens College, Flushing, N.Y.

15. Webb Institute, Glen Cove, N.Y.

16. Berea College, Berea, Ky.

17. Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga.

18. City University of New York-Baruch College, New York.

19. Simmons College, Boston.

20. Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

[SeekAndFind]

Brigham Young tops the top stone cold sober schools for the 12th year in a row.

[buccaneer81]

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, Mass.

I grew up in Needham. Olin is primarily a commuter school.

[Radl]

Miami of Ohio is not listed as a top ten party school? Something is seriously wrong here.

[buccaneer81]

8. Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Too busy eating pie.

[Darren McCarty]

As the Ted Nugent and Derek St Holmes song goes...

"Workin' Hard, Playin' Hard, helps me get through each day and night"

[SeekAndFind]

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705319503,00.html

Make it an even dozen.

For the 12th year in a row, Brigham Young University has claimed the title of the most stone-cold sober school in the nation.

No other school has come close to that kind of dominating performance in any category, said Rob Franek, editorial director for the Princeton Review's annual survey of the nation's universities, this year titled "The Best 371 Colleges: 2010 edition," which goes on sale Tuesday.

The rankings are based on a survey of 122,000 students at the 371 colleges.

"Brigham Young has had such exceptional longevity on this list and other lists," Franek said. "There has been no other school with this kind of longevity."

BYU spokesman Michael Smart, with tongue in cheek, said the university doesn't intend to rest on its laurels.

"I'll borrow from the world's football coaches and say that we are happy but we are not satisfied," he said. "This year, like very other year, we will take it one day at a time and hopefully this time next year we'll be talking about number 13."

In fact, BYU ranked first in five of the 62 different categories in this year's survey, including "Don't Inhale," a ranking of low marijuana use, and "Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution,"

BYU ranked second in "Most Religious Students," behind Thomas Aquinas College, a Catholic liberal arts school in Santa Paula, Calif., fourth in "Most Conservative Students" and seventh in low acceptance of gay students.

BYU's Harold B. Lee Library was ranked 16th among college libraries, and the university is ranked 20th for student participation in intramural sports. Notre Dame ranked first.

Two other Utah schools made the rankings.

Westminster College ranked 12th for "Best Quality of Life," and the University of Utah ranked 20th for "Most Religious Students."

Penn State University earned the distinction of "Top Party School" and Bennington College in Vermont was ranked "Least Religious Students."

Franek said the lists are designed to help potential college students pick out the university that best fits their personality.

"The ranking lists should be information to students, family and guidance counselors," he said.

Other student survey-based ranking lists in the book reveal the schools at which students most highly rated their administrators, campus career centers, and athletic facilities.

The ratings for both stone-cold sober and party schools are based on students' answers to the same questions about the use of alcohol and drugs, the number of hours they study each day outside of class, and the popularity of fraternities/sororities at their school. BYU has no fraternities or sororities.

The two page summary of BYU in this year's edition of "Best Colleges" notes "the typical BYU student is 'culturally LDS' and therefore 'does not smoke, drink alcohol, coffee or tea, does not swear, and is generally trustworthy and honest.' Beyond this, all who actively follow the school's behavioral and honor codes are well accepted regardless of race or religion; those who don't 'do not remain students here for long.' "

"One sophomore sums it up by saying, 'BYU — where your best hasn't been good enough since 1875.'"

Access to all of the Princeton Review ranking lists is available at www.princetonreview.com.

How Utah schools ranked

BYU

1. Stone-Cold Sober Schools

1. Don't Inhale (marijuana usage reported low)

1. Got Milk? (beer usage reported low)

1. Scotch & Soda, Hold the Scotch (hard liquor usage reported low)

1. Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution

2. Most Religious Students

4. Most Conservative Students (lean right politically)

7. Alternative Lifestyle Not an Alternative (low acceptance of gay community)

16. Best College Library

20. Everyone Plays Intramural Sports

Westminster College

12. Best Quality of Life

University of Utah

20. Most Religious Students

Source: The Princeton Review, "Best 371 Colleges: 2010 Edition"

[hilligan]

I can’t believe my alma mater Slippery Rock isn’t listed.

[org.whodat]

Not much to do out in the corn fields in the middle of no where.

[ERJCaptain]

18. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D. As a twenty-something grad of that fine institution, it brings tears of joy to my eyes. Usually we win a top-3 slot in terms of binge-drinking, but damn, to get put in the elite 20... we were doing something right. We've been promoted in athletics to Division I, we've always been in the top tier of aviation programs, but there is nothing I could be prouder of. I'm proud to have helped the cause along.

[Tribune7]

ping

[SeekAndFind]

Not much to do out in the corn fields in the middle of no where.

Which college are you referring to ?

[Treeless Branch]

Owned.

[lady lawyer]

Yeah for BYU.

[org.whodat]

Penn State

[RKV]

A word or two about my alma mater, UCSB. First, this school is hard academically. We now have 5 Nobel laureates on the faculty - and they’re ones with prizes in chemistry, physics, etc. Second, while it is not widely known, there is another good sized school in town - Santa Barbara City College has 16000 students, who DON’T have the study schedule that UCSB students do. They show up weekends in Isla Vista (the student ghetto) and outsiders get the idea that UCSB is party central. YES, you can go surfing before class (I sure did), and you can study on the beach (its a 5 minute walk from the library on campus). The good news is that you can get from work to fun in short order - who needs a road trip when you can ride your bike? The rest of the story, and the real point, is that UCSB is not really a party school - you can try to make it one, but you’ll fail out. Don’t hate us because SB has nice weather and the location is nice too. Sorry if you have to live somewhere where you’re in snow up to your *** all winter. Or you could have been a Gaucho.

[Travis McGee]

Ole Miss moving up, and UVA no longer listed...

[Francis McClobber]

Southeast Conference represented itself pretty well in the party circuit.

When I went to UGA, we were considered professionals amongst the amateurs.

They’re slacking these days.

[wardaddy]

we were just in Oxford for my cousin’s daughters stuff and to pick up my aunt who stays with us some

mazing how gentrifies it’s become..like a destination unto itself

hope oldest daughter will do law there...i can get legacy tuition

[Bruce Kurtz]

Here’s to the “Rat Cellar” where you could get a case of Rocks (Rolling Rock pony bottles) and a bottle opener for about $7 during the early 80s