Top 10 Party Schools
 

From CampusDirt.com, the unofficial guide to college.

Top 10 Lists

PARTY SCHOOLS

1Tri-State University

2Lehigh University

3College of Charleston

4Eastern Illinois University

5University of Dayton

6Tulane University

7University of Mississippi

8Roger Williams University

9Pittsburg State University

10University of North Carolina at Wilmington

How in the world is Eastern IL on there, but not Southern??

Are some of those party schools because nobody's ever heard of them?

Roger William? Where is that?

Isnt Rodger Williams that old dude who seels albums on late night TV. My 60 year old mom is into him.

Who knew he had a univeristy. wow. I want one.

That's be cool. moe.ron University. Imagine all the shirts I could sell.

Roger Williams is in RI, Bristol to be exact. I am from RI, and I only know one person who went there, and it was to the law school. If I hadn't actually seen it with my own eyes, I'd wonder if it truly exists. I've certainly never heard of any wild parties there.

Is this like what the students voted on or something...?

I can see some kid sending messages to everyone on facebook and telling them to vote for their school.

I would like to share a different list from The Princeton Review (where I always went to get all my college info)--maybe it's a little more accurate?
Top 20 party schools (from www.princetonreview.com):

1. SUNY at Albany
2. Washington and Lee University
3. University of Wisconsin- Madison
4. West Virginia University
5. Ohio University- Athens
6. Florida State University
7. The University of Texas at Austin
8. University of Georgia
9. University of Colorado, Boulder
10. University of Mississippi
11. University of Florida
12. University of California- Santa Barbara
13. University of Massachusetts- Amherst
14. University of Oregon
15. Indiana University- Bloomington
16. University of Vermont
17. University of Tennessee- Knoxville
18. Seton Hall University
19. Louisiana State University
20. Penn State University Park

They also had lists of who had the most hard liquor, who had the most beer and most pot.

I wouldn't believe ANYTHING from Campus Dirt. They are the brain trust who listed Penn State Main Campus and Penn State University Park as two separate schools. :rolleyes:

Coramoor, I think you're right.

Not likely. But there are enough threads about the Princeton Review and their lack of method and credibility.

okay - being from ohio myself - how the hell does univ. of dayton make a party school list and not ohio university?!?!?!?! doesn't make sense at ALL - UD is NOT a party school

marissa

Why does the SEC always seem to be disproportionately represented? :rolleyes:
Silver

Why Oh Why isnt ORAL ROBERTS U listed? Damn with a name like that, I would be drinking alot!;)

Well, not actually, I wouldnt be there!:D

A friend of mine from high school went there - honestly I wouldn't know anything about it unless he told me. It seems he partied a lot there, it sounded like a very socially active school to me.

However, I still don't know all that much about it.

I am surprised there isn't a Minnesota school on there. We seem to be the home of quite a few riots as of late.... University of Minnesota with it's hockey riots..... Minnesota State with it's homecoming riot.... I am sure St. Cloud has had a few of it's own.

Pretty sure the only reason University of Wisconsin - Madison is on there is because of Halloween. For those who haven't been there during Halloween it's the place to go.... it's crazy. About the only cool time to be in Wisconsin.... jk... I am from Minnesota....it's to be expected. It's Wisconsin... come on!

Great. Congratulations.

Kids you should want to go to these great schools on the party list.

Parents you should fund this wonderful educations.

Greek officers, you should set up shop in all of these schools and show how large you can be.

-Rudey

Lehigh is a party school according to the people I know who went there and has been for many years. It cracks me up that SUNY Albany tops the list.

Having attended both the University of Minnesota and Wisconsin -- all riots aside, Minnesota is nowhere close to Wisconsin in terms of partying. This partly comes from the lack of a unified campus, partly from a smaller, less traditional Greek system, and partly from the distance of the bar scene from campus itself. In Madison, the campus is all in one place downtown, and few students live very far from campus, which means that house parties are within easy reach for almost anyone. The Greek system here is quite a bit larger than Minnesota's (in terms of numbers per house if not houses per campus). And unlike the Twin Cities, where many of the bars are downtown in Minneapolis and a decent drive from campus, Madison's bars are clustered nearly the downtown/campus area.

Plus, the Twin Cities have a lot more to do than Madison does. As much as we try, Madison is a college town first and foremost. Meanwhile, the Twin Cities have tons of great theaters and restaurants, and overall more things to do than just drink. Madison's got a lot going on for its size, but it's really not that big of a town. Thus one of the reasons why the U of M can legitimately claim that a third of its students don't drink, and another third don't drink regularly. Recent studies at the UW, on the other hand, have showed that 60-65% of students are regular binge drinkers, with about another 30 percent drinking less excessively. Usually only about 10 percent, sometimes less, of UW students are non-drinkers.

Trust me, Halloween is not all that Wisconsin has to offer, party-wise. There's also the Mifflin Street Block Party in the spring, in which tens of thousands of students cram into four blocks and take over for an entire weekend of drinking. We have one of the only student unions in the country that serves alcohol. I could go on -- the drinking culture is well-entrenched here and has been for decades.

I don't like seeing the UW put down as "just a party school," but there is definitely a reason we have the reputation we do.

Well my school made both lists...and I am proud.