It’s that time of year again! College students, as you flock to Staples and Target to stock up on notebooks, pens and dorm room accessories, check out The Princeton Review’s 2014 list of Top 20 Party Schools below to see if a bottle opener and glitter — or ear plugs — should be included on your back-to-school list.
TPR surveyed 126,000 students about the overall consumption of beer on campus, overall consumption of hard liquor on campus, drug use, hours of studying spent outside of the classroom and popularity of Greek Life on campus. The survey is available year-round on TPR’s website but is also distributed among various schools nationwide.
Here are the winners — or losers — for biggest party schools:
1. University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
Average GPA: 3.62
2. University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, Calif.
Average GPA: 3.91
3. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Ill.
Average GPA: 3.53
4. West Virginia University
Morgantown, W. Va.
Average GPA: 3.36
5. Syracuse University
Syracuse, N.Y.
Average GPA: 3.60
6. University of Florida
Gainesville, Fla.
Average GPA: 4.20
7. Ohio University
Athens, Ohio
Average GPA: 3.40
8. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wis.
Average GPA: 3.84
9. Penn State University
University Park, Pa.
Average GPA: 3.54
10. Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pa.
Average GPA: 3.65
11. University of Georgia
Athens, Ga.
Average GPA: 3.83
12. Florida State University
Tallahassee, Fla.
Average GPA: 3.85
13. DePauw University
Greencastle, Ind.
Average GPA: 3.51
14. University of Mississippi
University, Miss.
Average GPA: 3.43
15. University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas
Average GPA: 3.63
16. Miami University
Oxford, Ohio
Average GPA: 3.63
17. University of Maryland
College Park, Md.
Average GPA: 4.07
18. Tulane University
New Orleans, La.
Average GPA: 3.51
19. University of Vermont
Burlington, Vt.
Average GPA: 3.50
20. University of Oregon
Eugene, Ore.
Average GPA: 3.57
