Despite a decade long effort to lessen its reputation as a party school, the University of Wisconsin at Madison was voted the nation's top party school by the Princeton Review. Last year, the Badgers were ranked number three on the poll.
On the other side of the spectrum, Brigham Young University was voted the most sober school for the eighth consecutive year.
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley dismissed the report as 'junk science that results in a day of national media coverage.'
However, the chancellor admitted he does pay attention to the academic rankings put out each year by Princeton Review and published in 'U.S. News & World Report' which ranked Wisconsin 34th in the nation.
The party school rankings are based on surveys which ask students about how many hours they study per day, their drug and alcohol use and how many students are in fraternities or sororities.
The list is not without controversy. The American Medical Association has asked Princeton Review to stop publishing it claiming it encourages students to drink.
Other schools making the top party school list include: Ohio University in Athens; Lehigh University in Pennsylvania; University of California-Santa Barbara; State University of New York at Albany; Indiana University-Bloomington; University of Mississippi; University of Iowa; University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Loyola University New Orleans; Tulane University in New Orleans; University of Georgia; Penn State University; West Virginia University; The University of Texas-Austin; University of Tennessee-Knoxville; University of New Hampshire; University of Florida; Louisiana State University; University of Maryland-College Park.
