Ohio University is the No. 1 Party School, According to the Princeton Review
The Princeton Review has released its list of the Top 20 party schools in the country and displacing Georgia in the top spot this year is Ohio University. The complete list is the below, and to nobody’s surprise, BYU won the sober school award for the 14th year in a row. Why makes Ohio University such a rabid party school?
Ohio University’s party reputation has long vexed administrators at the riverside school of about 20,000 students, and policies have been beefed up over the years in an attempt to reduce student drinking.
In formal complaints regarding violations of Ohio’s student code of conduct, about 60 percent are listed as alcohol-related in recent academic years, according to statistics posted online by the University Judiciaries, the school’s disciplinary division. In 2010-2011, 1,213 complaints, making up 59 percent of the total, involved alcohol, the numbers show.
The Halloween revelry dates to the 1970s and typically attracts at least 20,000 people to downtown Athens streets. Arrests and citations during the party, mostly for alcohol and disorderly conduct violations, have at times reached more than 200 in recent years.
The event spun out of control in 2003, when then-Athens Police Chief Rick Mayer called the bash “the worst event to date” after rioting partiers lit couches on fire, started fights and threw bottles at officers and firefighters.
Any males single and under 30 (35?) should probably put Ohio University on the list of September/October road trips.
If you’d like to see who won all the other categories, click here.
Top 20 party schools:
1. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
2. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
3. University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.
4. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
5. University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif.
6. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va.
7. Penn State University, University Park, Pa.
8. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla.
9. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
10. University of Texas, Austin, Texas
11. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12. Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
13. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La.
14. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wis.
15. DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.
16. Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.
17. Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.
18. University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
19. University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt.
20. University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.

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August 1st, 2011 at 6:04 PM
just like Georgia to fail to live up to its ranking.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:05 PM
Even I think Iowa is ranked awfully high. Especially for a dry campus.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:06 PM
Wait, why couldn’t we get a bigger version of the tease pic in here??
August 1st, 2011 at 6:08 PM
That tease photo is the greatest photo in the history of the internet. It’s been around for a while. How about a where are they now feature on those two?
August 1st, 2011 at 6:08 PM
No way. Have these people actually been to the land of cornfields and gangs? Madison is a MUCH bigger party school than Illinois.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:10 PM
athens has some killer “[this] calling the kettle black.”
August 1st, 2011 at 6:10 PM
I don’t think so. I’d still take the talent at other schools over waht’s supposedly in Ohio. Just because there are more alcohol related citations, doesn’t mean it’s more fun to party there. I’d still prefer to go where there is more sunshine and hotness, and less clothes.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:10 PM
University of Spoiled Children is also conspicuously absent from here. Princeton Review is usually pretty good on these things but this list seems awfully strange.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:11 PM
i will never understand how iowa is a top party school. how the hell can it be?
August 1st, 2011 at 6:13 PM
it’s true. OU’s nice and all, but southern schools blow it away.
athens is a really fun time if you’re into alternative methods of inebriation but other than that, it’s nothing extraordinary.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:14 PM
Looks like I am going to have to go get some coeds trashed this week. Can’t be falling that low ASU.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:14 PM
Menarky – 67 bars in a 4 block radius. And this. The ranking should have dropped in recent years though. When I was a freshman in 2002, the law was 18 to party, 21 to drink. So at 18, you could get in the bars. They just passed a 21 ordinance this year.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:15 PM
SMU still hasn’t cracked the top 20 after reaching #17 11 years ago. Sad.
So apparently a movie based no the board game Battleship has been made. It was Brooklyn Decker and Liam Neeson among others. The trailer looks, uh, interesting.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:15 PM
That photo is the Ped Mall. Spencer can expound on it, he saw it last year. It’s basically the main congregation of bars and students at 2 am. But still, it’s got nothing on State Street in Madison.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:16 PM
Different atmosphere since you exit campus into the less attractive areas of LA.
and TBL…35 years old and trolling at colleges? Some of those girls are 17/18.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:17 PM
Its been discussed. I believe Ndub took several movie producers hostage after seeing it.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:19 PM
Can anyone confirm this? I would have needed 50 plus guesses to get here.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:19 PM
“50+” would have also worked in my previous comment.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:20 PM
Its been discussed. I believe Ndub took several movie producers hostage after seeing it.
I see. It seems like I’ve missed a lot today.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:21 PM
Top Stone-Cold Sober Schools – Brigham Young University (UT)
Color me shocked.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:22 PM
Obviously the NYC schools are disqualified b/c of lack of area for frats and the fact there are 100s of bars around them.
/Penn State too low
August 1st, 2011 at 6:22 PM
Was that really called for?
/punches ticket to hell
August 1st, 2011 at 6:23 PM
/high fives SC and random other fake internet friends that will soon be real life pseudo-, kind of acquaintances.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:24 PM
How is Georgia Tech so high?
And trolling at 35, TBL? I’m not 30 yet and I get creeped out at college bars…a little…until i get drunk…if my wife isn’t around.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:25 PM
And trolling at 35, TBL? I’m not 30 yet and I get creeped out at college bars…a little…until i get drunk…if my wife isn’t around.
/nods quietly in agreement
August 1st, 2011 at 6:25 PM
Never too old, my friend.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:25 PM
I did some investigating on lodging this weekend. We all need to talk on e-mail this week and lock something down ASAP.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:26 PM
They get the death sentence for partying too? Syncs up with when Kourtney Kardashian was there. She’s the Craig James of the SMU party scene.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:26 PM
The hell are y’all going?
August 1st, 2011 at 6:27 PM
Well there’s your problem.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:28 PM
They exceeded their student to BMW 3-series ratio and were disqualified for any awards.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:28 PM
Athens, Ritty. To see the Dawgs play Auburn. But mostly to go creep on 18-22 year old white women.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:29 PM
Tell me about it. I got married at 28 though. That’s holding out for some time.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:29 PM
I really need to get to an SEC football game. Never been to one and need to go for an abundance of reasons.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Oh God…y’all hanging out with Husker? I’ll buy all of y’all Auburn gear if you promise to wear it.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:30 PM
They get the death sentence for partying too?
Sorta. My senior year the Student Life Office passed a rule stating that a university cop has to be present at all university registered parties that are on campus. So most parties have moved out of the greek houses (which is the only place they could be held since campus is technically dry except on game day) and to off campus locations. At the risk of sounding like I’m still in college, it’s totally lame man.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:31 PM
Unemployment has officially become the stuff of depression
August 1st, 2011 at 6:31 PM
They exceeded their student to BMW 3-series ratio and were disqualified for any awards.
I wish I could say this is an exaggeration. Actually it is: there are as many Ranger Rovers on campus as BMWs.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:32 PM
You drive to Chicago and we’ll take you. I’m driving with my buddy. We’re not flying. He wants to drive for whatever reason.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:33 PM
Come to Athens, Hernia. All are welcome. I assume the FAA can make an exception in your case for more than 4 oz of hair product on a flight if you just explain to them exactly where/why you’re going.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:34 PM
I hope that game doesn’t end up on TV at 11 am and totally destroy the atmosphere.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:35 PM
I’m an XL. Or a 7 and 3/8 hat size. I have no rooting interest so I’ll wear it. Free stuff is free stuff.
And yes, Husker will be there.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:36 PM
Oh. Shit. Yes. Remind me of that closer to November.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:36 PM
I’m surprised UK’s extensive history of rape and sexual assault didn’t add the school to this list.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:36 PM
God damn it
August 1st, 2011 at 6:37 PM
Pay for my ticket and I guarantee a shouting of “War Eagle!” no less than 3 times an hour
August 1st, 2011 at 6:37 PM
I’d end up being kicked out somewhere in Kentucky after shitting on Bears football for 400 miles
August 1st, 2011 at 6:38 PM
Wonder if I can still find a Georgia Sucks and Bama Swallows t-shirt for you to wear. Nah, that probably wouldn’t be a good idea.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:38 PM
Hey, I offered to phone in a bomb threat to Rupp. You declined.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:39 PM
YOU DARE TO DESTROY THE MOST SACRED RIVALRY IN COLLEGE BASKETBALL: UK vs MARIST!? FOR SHAME, SIR.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:39 PM
We’d be nice and at least drop you in Shatner’s front yard. By that time, we’ll be shitting on Bears football too. They should be in the area of 4-7 by then.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:39 PM
It’ll take more than that.
I had actually planned on going to that game anyway, but switched it up to the @LSU game for my away game trip this year.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:42 PM
Ritty – as long as you look young and aren’t one of those lecherous dbags, college bars rock. Went to one in Philly last year, wore they ring & they still were aggressive. And I’m a non-factor
August 1st, 2011 at 6:44 PM
What colleges are in Philly? I honestly can’t think of one.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:45 PM
I just noticed this. Those hippies really bring down the house that fucking hard, eh?
August 1st, 2011 at 6:45 PM
Temple. University of Pennsylvania (I think).
August 1st, 2011 at 6:45 PM
You guys will all come to Vanderbilt for a football game, right? Right?
/crickets
I really need to get to an SEC football game. Never been to one and need to go for an abundance of reasons.
Vanderbilt SEC games are like away games, I am pretty certain I still have no idea what an SEC college game is like…
August 1st, 2011 at 6:46 PM
What colleges are in Philly? I honestly can’t think of one.
I can name two. Villanova and St. Joseph’s. Boom.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:46 PM
Univ. of Pennsylvania (probably the biggest party school among the Ivy’s), LaSalle, Temple (huge frat schools), St. Joes, Drexel and Villanova is about 10 miles from Philly. And ‘Nova can party.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:46 PM
I’m in the same boat as you, sir.
/UK football is a joke
August 1st, 2011 at 6:47 PM
Nova, St Joes, Drexel too.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:48 PM
Villanova was one I should have remembered. The others not as much.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:48 PM
August 1st, 2011 at 6:49 PM
Shit forgot about Nova. They’ve been pillaging NYC for quite some time now.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:49 PM
Nah, I’m with you. I was just making fun.
I was in the same situation at games in Auburn last year and when I’m in Lubbock. I’ve still got it. Especially now that I have a job and a $50 bar tab is no big deal.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:49 PM
Villanova was one I should have remembered. The others not as much.
Don Chaney will hunt you down, tear our your eyes, and shit on your soul for forgetting Temple.
Bill Cosby too.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:50 PM
Note to everybody…Villanova is closer to Radnor, which is about 8 miles from the Philly city limit. I’ve partied at every school in the Philly area, and trust me, ‘Nova, Cabrini (small school) and Rowan (south Jersey) have the best parties.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:50 PM
Hernia: You weren’t at the Sugar Bowl in 2007. That experience changed my life.
I am rocking a red Georgia polo shirt in Athens like you read about.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:52 PM
And there is always talent jogging along the Schuykill.
/all my Philly knowledge
August 1st, 2011 at 6:52 PM
I’m just happy you guys aren’t going to Starkville, for Jersey’s sake.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:53 PM
No dude. You’ve got it backwards. You wear red pants and a black polo shirt, a white UGA bar hat (backwards), and have a pocket full of mini-bourbon bottles.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:54 PM
baton rouge. do it.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:54 PM
Dude, was there for a the Dad Vail regatta. Smoking, college rowing chicks everywhere.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:54 PM
Yup. Rittenhouse Square has lots of talent as well. Old City is where you want to find skanky girls from the suburbs though.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:55 PM
plaid shorts, white nike golf shirt with a the G logo and a backwards visor and boat shoes.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:56 PM
I know it doesn’t interest anybody…but Penn St/Temple on 9/17 at noon, and Phillies/Cardinals at 7pm…I’m going to be destroyed that day.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:58 PM
/furiously scribbles down notes
August 1st, 2011 at 6:58 PM
Huskies play down there next year. Would love to get to that one.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:58 PM
Nope. That’s the early season uniform. It’s cold in November.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Holy fuck.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:01 PM
Now, the visor- am I just wearing it backwards? Or backwards and upside down?
August 1st, 2011 at 7:01 PM
So I should assume I would be going to Bushwood Country Club then? Got it.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:02 PM
Yeah, glad you guys don’t know my fratty ass gameday outfit.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:02 PM
The Tribe’s playoff chances will pretty much be determined by the end of this 7 game road stretch. Unfortunately, it’s against Boston and Texas. Fuck…
/In Tomlin I trust
August 1st, 2011 at 7:03 PM
good call.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:04 PM
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HN3tigaU1Bk/R1AR1ZKysGI/AAAAAAAABp4/ZVo_eO1Lkj4/s1600-R/red_pants.jpg
August 1st, 2011 at 7:04 PM
Funny, because I know one girl from there, and she fits that bill.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:04 PM
I have a couple minutes to decide whether to start him or not…
August 1st, 2011 at 7:04 PM
I partied up at Ohio University with some friends early in my TV producing career — and had a blast there. Glad to hear that it’s as fun now as it was up there in 2000.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:05 PM
Well, it applies to residents of there as well, but all of the skanks from Jersey and the suburbs go to Old City. I went there plenty when I was single. But I do enjoy the restaurants down there.
/Amada wins always
August 1st, 2011 at 7:06 PM
if you ever find yourself at OU for the weekend…go here at the end of the night.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:07 PM
Don’t know if I could do the red pants. But I think I’m all about the black Jawjuh polo.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:07 PM
outstanding.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:08 PM
gotta go with the white shirt and black and red striped tie.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:08 PM
Phillymantis: Everytime I’m in Philly, if I make it out of Manayunk, it’s a cherry on top of what was already an awesome time.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:09 PM
Yeah, I agree.
/ saves the navy and orange bow tie for big games
August 1st, 2011 at 7:10 PM
Manayunk is a good time as well. The brewery is pretty awesome. Man, I miss living close to Philly.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:11 PM
Look man, whatever gets me a in the bed of a chick with a thick Southern accent iwho has been wanting to try out black guys for awhile but was a little nervous because of what her friends/parents would say but finds my very against the stereotype demeanor has her intrigued in the end, that’s the look I need on gameday. Go Dawgs.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:11 PM
Manayunk Brew Co.? Great times.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:12 PM
I see your plain red tailgating slacks and raise you this: http://www.penningtonandbailes.com/index.php/smu-red-pants-men.html
August 1st, 2011 at 7:12 PM
Every part of this is epic. + however many you want
/we can still agree on partying even if I may not be a Jets fan
//high fives Jersey
August 1st, 2011 at 7:13 PM
Spits dip everywhere!!!!
August 1st, 2011 at 7:14 PM
I cannot overstate how much fun I had with LSU girls in New Orleans. Southern girls know what time it is.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:15 PM
Yep.
This: http://www.penningtonandbailes.com/index.php/auburn-orange-pants-men.html
With the bow tie = Winner.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:15 PM
First girl I ever did the dirty with was a southern belle from Georgia who went to Sweet Briar.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:15 PM
Tits.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:18 PM
Yep.
This: http://www.penningtonandbailes.com/index.php/auburn-orange-pants-men.html
With the bow tie = Winner.
Yep indeed. It was a little disingenuous to not mention that virtually every southern school has similar slacks and shorts on that website.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:19 PM
/sprays beadlejuice into a chipotle napkin
August 1st, 2011 at 7:20 PM
I know getting laid stories are frowned upon, but whatever: Day of the Sugar Bowl, we’d been drinking some fierce all day. I have a Patty O’s hurricane while we’re walking to the stadium. I’m walking with my boys and a ton of girls from LSU. This one chick and I had been chattin for a couple days. She goes “Your drink is a little low, you should top it off.” I tell her I’ll just keep drinking at the tailgate. She reaches doen underneath her jeans and pulls out a flask of rum and fills up my cup. I tell her there is no way I’m finishing this. She goes “You will if you wanna feel lucky tonight.” Drink downed in a way that I have never before, ever will again, and no man should finish a cup of rum you have ever seen. I was pretty done for the rest of the night. How I amde it through that abortion of the game, I will never know. But I was well rewarded for my efforts.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:20 PM
so when did she get huge tits?
August 1st, 2011 at 7:21 PM
So…uh…where was she hiding that flask?
August 1st, 2011 at 7:23 PM
It was in her boot.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:24 PM
oh okay.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:24 PM
So…uh…where was she hiding that flask?
My thought exactly. Sounds like it was probably pretty warm.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:42 PM
I wanted to go to the Grove. I have heard many good things.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:44 PM
I’m sorry, I missed that memo. Why are they frowned upon?
August 1st, 2011 at 7:45 PM
Needs more CMU/MSU
August 1st, 2011 at 7:46 PM
Otherwise, known as Wednesday night in Morgantown.
Pussies.
Miami U. is where you wanna go in Ohio. Two sororities were put on double secret probation in the last two years because they trashed, separately, two resorts.
Remember, take the most average looking chick at Florida, Alabama, Ole Miss, or Texas and put her on any college campus in Ohio. She becomes the hottest chick there.
August 1st, 2011 at 7:49 PM
I know getting laid stories are frowned upon, but whatever: Day of the Sugar Bowl
I’m just shocked that anything positive resulted from something that Jamarcus Russell had a hand in.
/joke seemed forced, but whatever
August 1st, 2011 at 8:02 PM
fuck Miami U.
August 1st, 2011 at 8:04 PM
Remember, take the most average looking chick at Florida, Alabama, Ole Miss, or Texas and put her on any college campus in Ohio. She becomes the hottest chick there.
This is a bit of an exaggeration. The South probably has more 10′s than everywhere else… but for every 10 there are plenty of 3 and 4′s.
August 1st, 2011 at 8:26 PM
golf.
August 1st, 2011 at 8:47 PM
cycling.
August 1st, 2011 at 8:53 PM
Apparently shitty John Lackey is back.
August 1st, 2011 at 9:15 PM
Yup. Couldn’t have come at a better time with the Bucholz news. Sigh.
August 1st, 2011 at 9:17 PM
HARUMPH!
August 1st, 2011 at 9:20 PM
As an OU alum, I can proudly say the Princeton Review got it exactly right. This will be a great reason for another blowout at Harvard on the Hocking.
August 1st, 2011 at 9:26 PM
Bernie Kosar’s daugher is a yoga instructor and apparently delving into porno.
August 1st, 2011 at 9:30 PM
f— Miami U.
Yes Miami students are like a poor-man’s version of the Barney that Will Hunting clowns at that Harvard bar. Lots of good people but still overloaded with d-baggery.
August 1st, 2011 at 9:32 PM
I would drive 99 yards for that ass.
/John Elway
August 1st, 2011 at 9:38 PM
Duckworth.
August 1st, 2011 at 9:45 PM
id beat nebraska for that.
/kosar
//ew…
August 1st, 2011 at 10:04 PM
Without a doubt…news like that might drive Bernie to drink.
August 1st, 2011 at 10:11 PM
sorry if that was a repost
August 1st, 2011 at 10:20 PM
Yet another one without the grades to get into Ohio’s Public Ivy…
Proud Miami grad.
August 1st, 2011 at 10:35 PM
When did tito turn into Joe torre? Bad bullpen management against the Indians tonight.
August 1st, 2011 at 11:11 PM
I will literally piss on every last one of you guys if you wear Auburn stuff. I might even eat Thai food and piss out of my ass onto your face.
August 1st, 2011 at 11:13 PM
There are six 9′s and three 4′s with a 6 in there to play above and below her pay grade.
August 1st, 2011 at 11:27 PM
Where is East Carolina on this list? Didn’t they get retired from the Playboy list in the 1990s?
August 1st, 2011 at 11:39 PM
I’m about a large in polos. I’d like a red one and a black one just so I can have the option on Saturday morning. Thanks, Husker. You’re the best,
August 1st, 2011 at 11:40 PM
Where did this come from?