MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin leaders are chafing under a state-imposed tuition freeze, and the football team didn’t crack the Top 25 preseason rankings. But no school in the country throws a better party, according to the Princeton Review.
The New York-based tutoring, test prep and college admission services company publishes a book every year ranking colleges in 62 categories. This year’s edition is based on an online survey of 143,000 students. The survey asked students about alcohol and drug use on campus, the popularity of Greek life and the number of hours they study each day.
UW is famous for parties, especially Halloween and an end-of-year block party. Every home football game is preceded by hours of off-site drinking.
UW officials greeted the news coolly, issuing a statement that called heavy alcohol use on campus a “pressing public health concern” that hurts academic achievement and makes schools less safe.
The University of West Virginia came in second, followed by the University of Illinois, Lehigh University and Bucknell University.
The University of Colorado was ranked 19th.
