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Party Schools

Top Ten Lists, Top Twenty, Princeton Review Top Ten...

Besides the obvious, what's a party school, exactly?

Party schools are easy to find, but most colleges have bacchanalian revelry, even without the reputation.

Below you will find top ten lists, top twenty lists, and and information on a different kinds of party-hearty destinations.

It may surprise you to learn that universities are not happy to be designated among the ten or twenty "top party schools." Colleges have lately begun to crack down on drug and alcohol abuse, more than I have seen them do for several years, and some schools are taking major steps to lose that reputation. University officials express concern that students may think that existing in an alcoholic haze is somehow integral to the college experience.

Downsides to the heavy drinking/drug use on today's campuses:

Colleges are taking an increasingly dim view of excessive drinking

College binge drinking - a major public health issue

Alcoholism

Increased sexual assault crimes

More rape, date rape

Deaths

A Realistic Look at Higher Education Partying

Safety and security on college campuses

Top party schools

Pub Clubs Top Ten Party Schools and best small party schools

Another list-top twenty

Indiana University - Bloomington

Clemson University

University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa

Penn State University Park

University of Florida

SUNY at Buffalo

University of New Hampshire

University of Colorado, Boulder

Florida State University

University of Wisconsin-Madison

The University of Texas at Austin

Michigan State University

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Louisiana State University

University of California-Santa Cruz

University of Tennessee

New York University

Ohio State University-Columbus

Virginia Tech

Tulane University

In case you didn't notice,

many schools on this list are among the best in the country. Take care, if you attend these schools, not to get into the party scene so much that you lose your perspective, or you may find yourself on the way home.

Stone Cold Sober schools

Brigham Young University (UT)

Wheaton College (IL)

United States Air Force Academy

United States Naval Academy

United States Coast Guard Academy

Cooper Union

California Institute of Technology

United States Military Academy

Centenary College of Louisiana

Haverford College

Illinois Institute of Technology

College of the Ozarks

Golden Gate University

College of the Atlantic

Calvin College

Mount Holyoke College

Simmons College

Saint Anselm College

Wellesley College

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Do I think liquor never passes the students' lips at these schools? No.

But I think they keep it in better perspective.

For a forum on the best schools for revelry, check out this web site: Partyschool.com/Best places to party: Forums, debates

Playboy's Top Ten

1. Wisconsin

2. UC - Santa Barbara (A "hard sciences" school, don't be fooled by the label)

3. Arizona State University

4. Indiana University

5. San Diego State University

6. Florida State University

7. Ohio University

8. University of Georgia

9. University of Tennessee

10. McGill University (Canada)

Princeton Review Top Ten List

1. University of Texas at Austin (#2 in hard liquor, #3 in beer drinking, #13 in pot smoking)

2. Penn State University

3. West Virginia University

4. University of Wisconsin-Madison

5. University of Mississippi

6. Ohio University

7. University of Massachusetts-Amherst

8. Louisiana State University

9. University of Iowa

10. University of California, Santa Barbara

Check out Campus Dirt.com for all the lowdown on colleges

Define "Party School"

I just learned that there are Communist Party Schools in China, but suspecting they were not the same thing, I checked, and sure enough there are a few differences

A Headline: "Vice-president Stresses Importance of "Party Schools"

Communist Party of China (CPC) schools are vital for building a team of quality cadres, said Chinese Vice-President Zeng Qinghong Wednesday.

Created by the Party's committees at different levels, "Party schools" (in China) are characterized by a special educational system designed to spread Marxism among cadres.

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