Princeton Review's Top Twenty Party Schools

University of Florida ranks no. 1 on the Princeton Review's top party schools.

ByABC News
July 28, 2008, 1:45 PM

July 28, 2008— -- Just call 'em the Guzzling Gators: The University of Florida is the nation's No. 1 party school.

The school tops the annual list of party campuses compiled by the Princeton Review. The university has made the list before, but has never been first. It wrested the title away from West Virginia University.

Coming in second was the University of Mississippi, followed by Penn State University, West Virginia and Ohio University-Athens.

The University of Iowa came in at 12th.

Florida also came in first this year in the categories of students who study the least and students who pack the stadiums.

The annual rankings also list the nation's "Stone-Cold Sober Schools." Topping that list was Utah's Brigham Young University.

Following is a list of the top party schools in the nation according to a ranking from The Princeton Review after surveying the opinions of 120,000 students.

1. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.

2. University of Mississippi, University, Miss.

3. Penn State University, University Park, Pa.

4. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.

5. Ohio University-Athens, Athens, Ohio

6. Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va.

7. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.

8. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Tex.

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

10. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla.

11. University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H.

12. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

13. University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, Co.

14. Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, Ind.

15. Tulana University, New Orleans, La.

16. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Ill.

17. Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.

18. University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, Tenn.

19. University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, Ala.

20. Loyola University-New Orleans, New Orleans, La.