Miami out-parties OU on top party school list

Say it ain’t so.


From the Associated Press: The Princeton Review's 2015 "The Best 379 Colleges," contains a list of the Top 20 party schools and the Top 20 sober schools.

TOP 20 PARTY SCHOOLS

1. Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

2. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

3. University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif.

4. West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia

5. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois

6. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

7. Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

8. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

9. Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

10. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

11. Miami University (Ohio), Oxford, Ohio

12. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

13. Ohio University-Athens, Athens, Ohio

14. DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana

15. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

16. University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi

17. Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

18. University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont

19. University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

20. University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware

TOP 20 SOBER SCHOOLS

1. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

2. Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois

3. U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York

4. Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan

5. Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California

6. College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri

7. Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts

8. Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania

9. U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut

10. City University of New York-Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York

11. City University of New York-City College, New York, New York

12. Wesleyan College (Georgia), Macon, Georgia

13. U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland

14. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, Massachusetts

15. City University of New York-Queens College, Flushing, New York

16. Mills College, Oakland, California

17. St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota

18. University of Houston, Houston, Texas

19. Nazareth College, Rochester, New York

20. University of Dallas, Irving, Texas

This round in the Ohio University-Miami University rivalry goes to Miami.

The Oxford institution of higher learning bested OU, my alma mater and the oldest university in the Buckeye State, on the Princeton Review’s top 20 party schools list. The party school list is among more than 60 lists published as part of the 2015 “The Best 379 Colleges” edition.

Miami landed in 11th place. OU will have to settle for 13th place.

Syracuse University in New York tops the list, a place OU has enjoyed.

This was the first time at least in recent memory that Miami has out partied OU, its chief Mid-American Conference rival.

The Athens university topped the 2012 top 20 party school list and was the nation’s third top school on the 2013 list. It ranked seventh on the 2014 list. Miami landed in 9th place on the 2013 list and 16th on the 2014 list. It was number two on the 2011 list based on a survey of students.

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