Top Party Schools Ranked By Princeton Review

The students in Athens, Georgia, know how to party. For the second year in a row a school in Athens has topped The Princeton Review’s annual “Top Party Schools” list. This year, however, it wasn’t the University of Georgia.

For 2012, Ohio University ranked as the top party school in the country.

The list is created every year by the Princeton Review after polling about 120,000 students.

According to the Princeton Review, schools on the annual list has low personal daily study hours, high alcohol and drug use, and a large population of frats and sororities.

Before you view the list perhaps it would be worth turning on your TV, popping in a DVD or Blu-ray copy of Animal House and then hunkering down for a few hours with an open mind.

As a college graduate in the party heavy city of New Orleans I’m sure there will be plenty of readers who look at the list and wonder why their own universities were not included.

Here’s the complete list of Princeton Review’s top party schools for 2012 view the list and let us know if you agree with the universities that top the list:

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.

Are you surprised by any of the schools on the list?