Playboy magazine released their list of top ten party schools, with University of Texas at Austin taking home first prize.
Shots all around.
Here’s what Playboy had to say about the Longhorns:
The Longhorns football team fell just short in the national championship game, but here’s a victory the entire school can claim a part of. We’re talking to you, bikinied coed in Devil’s Cove, and you, star wide receiver Jordan Shipley, and even the humanities library, which just purchased David Foster Wallace’s papers. When you add up academics, the weather, the liberal atmosphere, South by Southwest, game day and the nightlife on Sixth Street, UT Austin is one heck of a school. Hook ’em, Horns!
Texas was followed by the West Virginia University, where let’s face it, as Playboy points out, there is not much else to do. Some freshman in the magazine claims, “We drink two percent of all the world’s beer.” University of Wisconsin-Madison took third place followed by University of Miami, Florida and East Carolina University.
A few shockers included Florida’s Rollins College, which only has 1,785 undergrads, and Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, which has apparently not made the list in 20 years.
The article also handed out a handful of other very prestigious awards. The University of Southern California Song Girls were designated the “Hottest Cheerleaders.” Marquette was deemed the best “Catholic Party School.” Nursing won hottest major and the magazine named The Flabongo (a beer bong made out of a lawn flamingo) the best drinking invention.
The honor of worst party school was a tie between Brigham Young University and Oral Roberts (go figure) and the title for “Best Ivy League Party School” was deemed “N/A.”
Though this university did not make Playboy’s list this year, we have been recognized for our party credentials in the past. We just missed cracking Playboy’s Top Ten last year, coming in at #11, for “Making it happen since 1856.” In 2007, the Princeton Review ranked the university as the #14 party school, but since then, we have not even cracked the top 20.
But, despite our lack of recent reputation for having a good time (I mean, have Princeton or Playboy seen The Thirsty Turtle?), we at least can boast the most co-eds (three) in last fall’s Playboy “Girls of the ACC” spread. Now, if that’s not partying, we don’t know what is.