It’s been questioned a lot in the last couple of years whether or not Arizona State is STILL a party school…
It’s one of those moments where no news is good news (or bad, depending on your goals…)
For the fourth year in a row, Arizona State University did not make The Princeton Review’s list of the top 20 “party schools” in the country.
The top party school instead is University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which has more than 32,000 enrolled undergraduate students, according to the university. No. 2 is the University of Iowa and in third place is University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The list was released Monday as part of The Princeton Review’s package on “The Best 380 Colleges 2016,” which has schools ranked on 62 lists ranging from the practical “Best Athletic Facilities” and “Happiest Students” to the stone-cold serious “Best Campus Food” and “Reefer Madness.”
Are we out of the “party school” woods?
The last time any of our state universities made The Princeton Review’s “Party Schools” list was in 2011, when ASU was No. 17 for the 2011-2012 academic year.
But it’s not over yet.
Another list to watch for is Playboy’s annual Top 10 Party Schools. U of A took No. 4 on their list last year, though ASU was missing.
ASU was No. 9 in 2013; none placed in 2012; and ASU was No. 3 in 2011.
They’ve come a long way: ASU was Playboy’s No. 1 party school in the nation in 2002, according to the State Press.
Playboy’s list is historically released in September, so keep an eye out. But FYI, ASU still knows how to party.
Where did Arizona’s three state universities place?
University of Arizona was the only of our state schools to place on a ranked list, and three at that.
Their highest was at No. 4 on the list of 20 universities with “Best Health Services.”
They’re also No. 11 of the 20 schools where “Students Pack the Stadiums” and No. 22 of 24 for “2015 Top Entrepreneurial Programs: Undergraduate.”
Both ASU and U of A made the primary Best 380 Colleges list, and all three universities made the list of 353 “Green Colleges,” which is unranked.
The results are from a “survey that asked 136,000 students at 380 top colleges to rate their schools on dozens of topics and report on their campus experiences,” according to a Princeton Review press release.
Well, the truth is out. Arizona State is STILL a party school. AND, Brian Mac Rust is back on campus, so it is definitely a party school!
Hi. I’m Brian Mac Rust and this is me.
I’ll be using this blog as a place to chronicle my adventures. I am going to experiment this year with how wild and crazy of a college experience I can have this semester. I am going to make my time on campus a laboratory and teach these young kids how to really let loose. Enjoy the raucousness.
Brian Mac Rust Is In The On Campus Laboratory 