Best Party Schools
 

College is about studying—and socializing. Newsweek ranks the 25 schools that take that mantra to heart.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswee...party.all.html

Wow...Georgia, Ole Miss and Florida didn't make the cut?

Ridiculous...Gators at a Cornell party would consider it a warm-up.

EVEN ALCOHOLISM IS BETTER IN THE SOUTH

I assume you've been to WVU, Cornell, etc. so you can make such an unbiased, surely-not-based-on-reputation-and-limited-experience judgment?

I will flat out say that University of Oregon shouldn't be on that list. Or at least it shouldn't be that high. My first university isn't on that list and the party scene is a lot bigger (and better in some opinions). Granted, I haven't been to the other universities on the list, but honestly the party scene isn't that big at UO. I'm also not sure what nightlife they are talking about. There are really mainly three bars on campus. There is little to do in Eugene.

Number #4, woo!

Texas Christian hit #7? My little cousin just committed to them. Big cousin makes frowny face.

Totally agree about UofO. In what freakin' world. I'm a middle aged mother and even I know better. Now, Daughter likes that it is quieter and I wouldn't say she thinks there is nothing to do (many of the things just don't involve partying), BUT there is no way it even comes close to Washington State in the partying department. They could put a Satuday night in Miami Beach to shame any day of the week...and that's the alumni for goodness sake! There really aren't many other options there.

AND where the heck is Arizona or even Arizona State!!! Not to mention CU --shoot in the Pac 12 alone there are at least 5 schools that could outdo UofO.

I think they just picked names out of a hat or names they recognized for any number of reasons. The name on the top of the list I'd agree with - WVU.

Fear not... TCU kids are amateurs at the party school thing. My alma mater Texas Tech didn't make the list so I feel like it has little credibility.

They are probably ranking the per-capita bars or something... and Fort Worth nightlife has exploded in the past two years. But very little of that overlaps with TCU who primarily stick to a very small segment of town.

Agreed.

I read somewhere that this party list is compiled from exit interviews with recent graduates. The more people that respond to the interview from certain schools, the higher their school is on the list. I don't think it's a very scientific method. :-)

I, in error, did not post the opening page to story:

College is about studying—and socializing. Newsweek ranks the 25 schools that take that mantra to heart.
To find the schools that party the most Newsweek crunched the numbers for the following five data points: Drug law violations for 2009 as a percentage of institution size, with data from the US Department of Education; Liquor law violations for 2009 as a percentage of institution size, with data from the US Department of Education; drug safety grades from College Prowler (a lower grade indicates greater prevalence and access to drugs and alcohol on campus, according to College Prowler surveys); nightlife grades from College Prowler; and Greek Life grades, from College Prowler. Each data point was weighted equally using z-scores (a measure of how close or distant each school is to the average within each category).

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswee...011/party.html

No. I never said that. I have, however, been to WVU. It gets pretty crazy there. I am just surprised because there are multiple other sites that rank the top party schools, and Ole Miss and Georgia are always in the top 10. I have 3 cousins that go to the University of Georgia, and in 2010-2011 they were named the #1 party school in the nation.

ROLLINS? LOL

UCLA makes the list, but UCSB doesn't? Not that I'm particularly proud of my school's reputation, but we were Playboy's #8 party school for a long time...now we've slipped to 10. I can't imagine that UCLA would rank so highly on a list that UCSB isn't even on.

I just laughed out loud that my one school made #5 and my other school (which consistenly ranks in the top 10 didn't make the list at all. I laughed even louder when I read: SUNY-Oswego! This list is a joke. SUNY-Oswego?

This is the REAL rankings from Princeton Review:
http://www.thebestcolleges.org/2012-...hool-rankings/

I guess I didn't realize that BOTH of my schools were listed as party schools. Well, it sure beats what we are known for at this moment in the news.

U of Alabama is only #2?
NOOOOOO!!!!

Back - WAY back - U of Alabama was, I believe, #1 in one of the very first party school lists, the one that Playboy came up with.
How did Alabama get to be #1? Did the magazine do extensive interviews, send reps to campus for weeks of polling, call every student?
No.
They mailed a survey to the SGA president, whom I happened to know. He took it back to the frat house, and he and his best buds sat round filling it out, spinning fictional yarns to prove their theses.
Yeah, that's how much credence those polls have.:p

The Princeton Review would beg to differ:

http://www.thebestcolleges.org/2012-...hool-rankings/

Part of me really wants to argue with this because from what I understand from my friends at other schools, we are pretty typical.

However, when you are surrounded by 70 miles of wheat on all sides, every little infraction seems a bit amplified. So I definitely understand our reputation. Heck, I was on campus during the riots a decade ago. (Watching safely from the house I might add :))

Yeah, I'm looking at that list thinking "U of Michigan is on there but Michigan State isn't? Central Michigan isn't? Both are MUCH bigger party schools than U of M.

CougADPi - In all fairness to WSU, I could not say how typical it is to compared to many schools in the country. I know they've tried to tone it down (a little over a decade ago they were ranked #6 by some poll - Princeton's I think).

If you put me in Pullman, I'd be drinking heavily by November (I'm a teatotaller) just because Gilligan and the 7 castaways were closer to civilization - not to mention the snow. :)

However, my daughter at least had some grounds for comparison and she's made the comparision - to all of her UofO friends who think THEY are crazy partiers. She attended WSU her freshman year and has gone to more than a few parties on Greek row at UW and OSU as well. Based on her own experience WSU wins w/o any of the others coming within spitting distance (she would say they are to partying what UO is to football in the NW). In order, she'd list it as WSU, UW, UO and OSU. Granted that's just her opinion, but anyone she knows who has had any experience at WSU has agreed they have earned that #1 spot for our region.


On an almost funny note, when she had her cheer team tryouts at WSU, they taught the girls a really BASIC cheer. The coach said, "I know this seems simple for college, but we have to keep it simple because most of the fans are already pretty drunk when they get to the game."

Check out the scout.com Cougar blogs on Mike Leach coming to WSU. A TT fan wrote in to say he was now a WSU fan and what should he know about them. 99% of the responses: We drink and we hate the huskies. My favorite was- We drink. A lot. Of Cheap Beer. :D

When she went down to UofO for orientation she was in a group of transfer students like herself. Throughout the day people would ask her what school she was coming from. When she told them WSU - every single one (no exception) said, "Oh, the party school." She said she should have just told them she went to the party school, and they would've known who she meant.

Of course, this outs exactly which school I was talking about in the recruitment story I wrote. So much for that. :o

so reading their methodology party=breaking the law. This is why an odd list of schools pop up. My guess is the list should be called the schools with the most vigilant campus security, not biggest party schools.

The Princeton review seems to be a bit more accurate but I'm noticing a strong bias toward Midwest/Southeast Schools. Because they seem to have gotten their data from polling students, it would seem plausible that bigger student population=bigger party school.

I guess I have a problem with the word PARTY. What does that mean? If a party means a gathering of people for enjoyment, it's one thing, if it means a gathering that includes alcohol it's another and a gathering of people for the express purpose of breaking a variety of laws a third. I wish they would define the word in their terms before announcing the rules. And god forbid they should fully explain their methodology. At least the Daily Beast article did that, even though I don't agree with their definition.

UNC-C???


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The only reason UNCC has any party scene is because most of the population are from Charlotte and still party with their high school buddies.

WSU easily gained 100k new fans with the Leach hire since we TTU alums are pretty much unanimously disgusted with our administration over that debacle. Leach has a huge fan base of his own and I don't doubt he'll interject a lot of his odd brand of energy into that program.

His press conferences (when he can be roped into doing them) are not to be missed... he's a very intelligent esoteric man known for going off onto odd but fascinating ramblings about things like the history of pirates. He's also remembered for his infamous "fat little girlfriends" rant from the 2009 season.

Man, I miss Leach. :(

My favorite was our Apple Cup slogan my freshman year: Win or Lose, We drink more booze. We'll take the cup, but we prefer the bottle.

And then there was the classic from a couple years ago: Our drinking team has a football problem.

At least we have fun with our image. (I was, well still am, a total non-partier. I was pretty boring in college....most of the time. :) )

This is exactly how Slippery Rock ended up in the Playboy Party School list back in the day. When the town itself is dry; when you're in PA with its arcane liquor laws, so you tend to overbuy just to be safe; and oh yeah, when you're in the middle of BFE, there just is nothing else to talk about.

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UMiami should be #1

1. :rolleyes:

2. Parties are not exclusive to Greeks, so a school full of GDIs can still be a party school.

I've heard he's a character. Tell those 100,000 new fans they need to do what any good fan does - send cold, hard cash. :) They need it (in the middle of trying to raise 80 million for a stadium expansion I believe).

I shouldn't have laughed considering i live 7 miles away, but I was rolling at this.

Now, now- don't laugh too hard. You are "nasty and inebriated" after all, and I will point out that they are 7 miles closer to some form of civilization (Spokane) than you are. :D.

Of course, you do have the mall (using the term loosely), Wingers, an Applebee's at least, and one of the few decent hotels (LaQuinta) in a 50 mile radius, so that gives you a slight edge in the civilization department I suppose.

By the way, I think you should be offended that UofI didn't make the list. I mean, if the Boise State president calls you out on it that should be worth some points shouldn't it? Is it possible NO ONE is paying attention to him - gasp! ;)

It's funny because it's true..... :D

I was actually surprised how much of a party school U of I is.

^^^^Yeah, same reasons as WSU.

The scary thing (being serious for a moment here), is that at one time Idaho had a lower drinking age than Washington, so during Dad's Weekend at WSU, the Dad's would come down, take their sons over the state line to Idaho, drink with them in the bars or bar (no idea how many there are or were in Moscow) or buy alcohol for them, and drive back. How that didn't wipe out half the male population at WSU is beyond me.

Two of my friends had fathers who went to WSU at the time. The police used to line the Moscow-Pullman highway with sandbags to keep people on the road. These two guys once tried to "tame the sandbags" by driving on them. They were pulled over, and forced to walk home more times they could count. I have heard there used to be cars all along the road Friday and Saturday nights from kids who got pulled over and just walked back home.

Aw, the good ol days. :confused:

^^^Well, like to say that surprised me, but no....

Daughter got pulled over five minutes after a basketball game one night. She was still in her cheer uniform. She told the police officer as nicely as she could manage, "Uh, I'm in a cheer uniform and the game just ended. Do you think I went to the game drunk and cheered?" Apparently, they thought it was a possibility.

Generally, though, she thought the Pullman police understood they were in a college town, and didn't go out of their way to arrest anyone unless they were obviously a danger to themselves or others. The Eugene police on the other hand....not so much.

I would not be at all surprised if some of our alums do just that. Team Leach is more popular than the Red Raiders with many of them.

I do know that the Leach move means that many of us (me included) will make the trip to see at least one WSU game next year. I love Pac-10+2 football anyhow so it would happen with or without Leach... but now it's assured that WSU will be one of the teams I see.

Considering the basketball team plays high...

She cheered in 2007/2008 when Bennett was the coach. He ran a tight ship, his players were a clean cut group, and no one on THAT team, THAT year was ever arrested or charged with using anything.

In addition, cheering, shockingly, actually requires some coordination (even at WSU), and I doubt she would have been able to pull that off drunk nor would it have occured to her to do so since she took her "job" as it were, seriously.

But, if we are talking about WSU's basketball team last year, and you assume that because college athletes at MANY schools (pretty sure it isn't limited to WSU) drink and smoke pot (:eek:), they must also be drunk and high when they are playing, then I guess this
http://www.espnnorthwest.com/article/2011/aug/01/vandal-wide-receiver-hatchett-arrested-dui/ would explain UofI's football season this year. :p.

Sorry, I HATE going there, because my own team's had enough issues, but I still like WSU too, and you started it - LOL.