How in the world is East Carolina not on this list? They wrote the book on Collegiate debauchery!

They were to busy worrying about this weekends football game against Nebraska after a poor showing so far this year.... Go Huskers....

Wow Texas Christian a partying like it's 1999. Note to self.....look into better colleges for my kids. No one needs lesson on being a party animal. ijs

I bet Texas Christan finished first in the "Sex" category...being so repressed, and such.

Florida and Wisconsin are always in the top 5. I knew honor students in high school that went to UF and flunked out due to booze. I think UVA must have gotten some game or the hotties on campus are putting out very well. Survival of the fittest as they say.

CU Boulder isn't even in the top ten. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

LOL WVU didnt even make it. Playboy has always said they dont rank professionals.

Denver Bill

you are correct - in my early years in USAF, I once had the distinct pleasure (when I was single too, I might add) to spend a glorious weekend on the 4th floor of the girls dorm after CU won in a football game - cannot remember the team they played nor the score but I sure do recall everything that happened on the 4th floor that weekend in Oct 1969! wooo hoooo! ;*).

Now many years later some very fond mammaries, errr, memories, yeah that was it!

Jack, At least Colorado doesn't have to worry about winning football games anymore.

Everyone knows that ASU is the #1 party school in the country!

Ahh, yes the Boone, NC ASU sluts and general extreme drunkeness. At least a top 3 ranking.

I live in Cville, I can confirm the assessment.

I don't know why WIsconsin is ranked with amateurs

Appalachian SU did not make the list? I also demand a recount!

Sandusky thought it was Penn(iss) State >:-[

WVU deserves to be on that list. Went to a party there one time on a Friday night and lasted till Sunday afternoon before I finally left. The party was still going strong when I finally admitted I wasn't as young as I once was.

The article fails to mention that the administration raised 'room & board' fees the minute they learned of their #1 ranking !

JFC-3426249 . . Ignorant since birth? or did you work at this. Stay with the topic or STFU. Wisconin def gets top nod. But they also graduate.

Wow mom and should be proud!! humpen and a pumpen!!!!In this day and age of so many smart people, you thing someone would wake up! BUT one day someone will be humpen and a pumpen your granddaughter and grandson !!!! and when hpv, hiv, herpes, ciffiliss and so on runs SO rampant(CHECK THE STATS ON HPV ALONE),YOU COULD SAY WOW IM FU(KEN GLAD I SPREAD THE WORD.. i ment the other thing!!! Now we can blame the goverment!!!!! Blame Bush!! America look in the toilet cause thats where headed! FU IF YOU DON`T AGREE !JUST SIT BACK AND ENJOY THE RIDE! LOOSERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What happened to Arizona State? It used to be number one and now it's no even in the top 10. C'mon ASU, you know you can get it back if you really want to.

Judging by the previous posts it is no wonder America is in the shape it is...

Debauchery, YAY!! Morality, Boo!!

Awesome, I move out of the state with the former #1 party school (WVU) and move into the state with the current #1 party school. My poor kid doesn't stand a chance.

muddlerfly,

You must be at Virginia right now because nothing you wrote makes sense including your grammer.

So U of V officials want to protest this "title" since it demeans the institution and they do this by bringing it up again in the news.................well they certainly didn't win first place for "intelligence" by administration.

Southern Oregon University was voted on the list way back when (it was either the 70's or 80's), and still to this day campus tour guides have to reassure parents that this is no longer a party school. It really isn't, so people come here for the parties, don't find any, then transfer to either Portland State or U of O. Because of the reputation, it repels serious students which is pretty sad considering SOU has some great programs (including a good Honors program).

How in the world is East Carolina not on this list?

Have you seen Greenville lately? It's absolutely sucks. 10 years ago, yeah, it was the place to be. Now it's turned into complete crap.

Ha Ha.....Texas Christian University made the list at #9.

I wonder how the "evangelical right" feel about that.

Then again, didn't one of the Bush twins go to TCU?

LOL

James-3672256Come on Wisconsin, you can do better than that. Barely cracked the top 5...

James the spelling should be Wooseconsin.

We at UT Austin demand a recount, we were supposed to be number one, are you kidding?

It sounds like the rankings are actually based on the available night life, rather than student attitudes. I'm sure it's hard to obtain a good grasp of student attitudes in order to actually rank "party schools", but the term implies that students do little more than get drunk and get laid. Here, the term apparently meant "this is where students would probably prefer to party". So it's not surprising that an older, presitigious university would make the list. The school officials are doing the right thing by clarifying that they don't want the school seen as a party school. That will ward away students who only want to party and lure more serious students.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the nation's oldest public university...then University of Georgia. UVa? Not even close. Research might be a good thing before your next article.

Internet made Playboy obsolete. You want to see titties google them. Who really reads PlayBoy? I mean actually read, not just browse through for a picture to masturbate too. I doubt the articles in there are really worth reading anyways.

I read it for nostalgia and other reasons, masturbation to a plastic fuzzed over model is about appealing as getting off looking at a mannequin. Thanks for the many years Heff, I look forward to many more. Even though some of your jokes are reprints from the 60's.

UNC 1795

William and Mary 1693

Harvard 1639

UNCGuy these are all classified as institutions of higher learning

On the edge:

UNC is the oldest public university. Harvard is private, and William and Mary, while public today, was originally private. Go Tar Heels!

Rutgers is also older than UNC (and UVA), founded in 1766.

Purpose of poll is to get the chatter started! It works every year. Next year they will pull some other name out of a hat and do it all over again.

Not only is Playboy way off, so are the rest of you.....I'll stack UC Santa Barbara against any of the schools mentioned above. UCSB, by far out parties anything on earth. Remember, UCSB is on the beach, and those beach parties beat anything seen in middle America. I may be mistaken, but I believe that on the UCSB application form there's a required response on a candidate's level of booze tolerance. If tolerance is below two six packs, or seven stiff shots of tequila, or ten margueritas, or two bottles of Chardonnay, etc., etc., you will be deemed incapable of surviving the school's curriculum.

So, Playboy, I demand a recount.

By the way, all of these party school's are a direct outcome of the last four year's of Obama's administration........Anything that happened before Obama came to power, was pure coincidence.

I must go. There's another article about a close by galaxy colliding with the Milky Way, in a short three billion years. I'm sure Obama is responsible for that too.

I vote for "Blue Mountain State"

no dont do that there,bring her home to me and do it here, the studting not playboy pitures,i could realy use the education.

I can't speak for any of the other universities as I have no idea what the tuition and academic levels are; however, UW-Madison is not much more expensive than any other public university for residents of Wisconsin, making it an affordable and desirable option. I enjoyed my four years there and never thought it was overpriced or "trashy." It was also academically challenging, and the experiences I had there prepared me for the next step in life. There are plenty of parties, yes, but there's also a beautiful lake, hiking trails, tons of local shops on State Street, etc. No need to trash these universities because of an unscientific, always changing poll by Playboy.

The UVa is not the oldest public university in the nation, that distinction goes to UNC

Actually, the University of Georgia is public and was founded 4 years before UNC.

Yeah, I'm sure the booze just flows non-stop at BYU!

Woo repping the SUNY system-- as a graduate of SUNY potsdam, apparently we "too" are a pretty big party school? I much prefer to go the bars instead of the weak ass house parties... but that's just me. :D

Back when the Air Force base was active and the cold war was red hot Platsburgh State was indeed named on the Playboy party school list. That's a fact.

PS, I'll ask Jimmer about BYU's party scene the next time he rolls into town to host a basketball clinic.

Colleges have a hard time keeping up with what the students do outside of the classroom and should not be responsible for it

There is no issue at all with keeping up with what the students do outside of the classroom. Just make the school's academics sufficiently rigorous that in order to stay in school people have to do a certain amount of work outside the classroom.

Don't misunderstand me. I think social interaction is just as important as academics but drinking until you fall down every night and never going to class yet somehow managing to graduate are not my idea of higher learning.

I've worked with people who somehow miraculously have a college degree that are unable to do a simple algebra problem or understand the difference between they're, there and their. These are not mystical tenants. One should expect a college graduate to be able to figure the tip on a check or know how to construct a viable sentence--in fact one should be able to expect that of a High School graduate.

I've worked with people who somehow miraculously have a college degree that are unable to do a simple algebra problem or understand the difference between they're, there and their.

To be fair:

I think social interaction is just as important as academics but drinking until you fall down every night and never going to class yet somehow managing to graduate are (is) not my idea of higher learning.

I would also expect proper noun-verb conjugation as well. I normally don't play the grammar police, but I couldn't resist this time.

I think that if a college demands a recount from a PLAYBOY statistic... they deserve their ranking! Who in the world puts stock in a Playboy survey/list?!?!

As another Charlottesville local, I'm surprised UVA is daring enough to ask for a recount when George Huguely V was just sent to Big Boy Prison for killing Yeardley Love, another privileged student. The whole trial was testimony under oath of the party life at UVA. The whole booze/sports/booze/sex/more booze culture at UVA was laid out for the world to see.

Just the police reports from The Corner is enough evidence of the party life of the students at UVA.

American neo-conservative forces may soon be sponsoring a move to rename the latter "Orel Roberts University"

Haha @TDub, glad you threw LU out there. I went, and it is the most exciting university in the world!

I agree that USC should be #1, but UV should indeed be on the top 5.

If USC is not the #1 Party school it stilll lives up to its name University for Spoiled Children.

UCLA should be on that list. So should AZ State--prettiest girls, best weather.

Meanwhile, students are rejoicing

Spartan: Yeah, they'll drink to that... well, I guess they'll drink to anything!!!

Yeah Lamar,

TCU, some times known as T "Scroo" U, how lucky can you get?

The "horny toads" are sponsored by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), whom I've frankly never heard of. Don't know what their views are on drinking and sex. But since they picked that mascot over 100 years ago, perhaps their a little bit liberal.

I do know that as far as hard-drinkin', hard-partyin' goes, they pale compared to their brethren down the road at overly repressed Baylor.

I don't think you're joking. :)

As a USU grad who moved here from western New York, yah--Utah schools aren't just limited in their debauchery; it's practically non-existent. However, I wonder if part of that is due to the fact that there is a LOT to do within half a day's drive: Yellowstone, Zion, Bryce, Moab ... not to mention the insane amount of outdoor stuff that there is to do anywhere up and down the Wasatch front. Hiking, snow boarding, skiing ... I mean, sure ... you can do just about any of those drunk and/or stoned, but it's definitely not the smartest way to do any of those activities. And there's an actual appeal to being in the mountains. I can't explain it, but hey ... there it is.

I might be able to forego the alcohol, but giving up coffee wouldn't work for me.

Cmcc… You told us you went to USU, but you failed to tell us if: “We will guarantee them an education, a marriage and a family all in one trip.” We will assume since you did not leave…… And yes!!!!! Utah is the best place to live, because we have it all!!!!!!!

Dhin... We have a coffee shop on every corner. Limited bars and very limited liquor stores (State owned).

Actually, California has it all; including the 8th largest economy in the world, highest unemployment rate, and the biggest contribution to U.S. GDP.

Isn't gettin' married a Bachelor's Degree requirement at BYU?

I believe children are required for post-bachelor degrees.

I'm sure UVA has earned this exalted status but as a University of Texas alum, I must point out that if beer consumption per capita were the primary criteria, Texas would have been #1 (again) closely followed by Wisconsin. Having recently been in Los Angeles, a friend tells me dorm rooms can be rented by the hour at USC and how does UNLV not make this list?

no penn state?

They didn't mean that kind of party.

towel-snapping parties weren't counted.

Virginia Tech and UVA are different schools... if that's what your referring to?

Also - UVA is not the oldest public U in the US. That distinction goes to The College of William & Mary, chartered in 1693. Attended by UVA's founder, Thomas Jefferson.

Ricci, I'm guessing you were not a "physics" major.

You just got schooled by someone from WVU!

University of Georgia chartered 1785 - admitted first student 1801. Univerity North Carolina CHapel Hill founded 1793 admitted first students 1795. College of WIlliam and Mary founded 1693 was PRIVATE until 1901. Using this data I would conclude that the oldes continuously Public University was UNC - since you cant be a university without students thus eliminating UGa

Holly--

You're spot on with your assessment of W&M (private and then public, but the shift was actually in 1906)... however, as you point out, the private/public distinction is a bit ambiguous in that the article does not state "continuously public"... so, if one were to look simply at current status--public--then W&M is the oldest.

What about Harvard 163?

Ricci,since you appear to have failed physics, geography, history, and civics i'll give you a "C" if you can tell me whose 3rd law of gravity Newton modified for his equal but OPPOSITE thesis. Clue, his first name is Johannes.

Jorge look again the SPoiled Children are #2

Indeed, I was about to comment the same thing!

Beat me to it. UNC is almost a quarter century older. While Georgia may have been chartered earlier, UNC was the first public university in the U.S. to admit students in 1795. Let's fix the lede NBC.

The College of William & Mary is the oldest public university in tthe US - beating UNC Chapel Hill by about 100 years. W&M was chartered in 1693.

You are all wrong. New College, Founded in 1636, is the oldest college in the U.S. It is now known as Harvard. William & Mary was 1693. UNC is not even in the top 9. William & Mary was a private school until after the Civil War, when it started receiving State money, but is the second oldest college.

Public University!.......Carolina was the only one of the 3 claiming the oldest title (Georgia, William & Mary being the other two), to bestow graduation to students during the 18th century.

I demand an amendment to the article. This is an outrage and injustice. Go Tar Heels!

Let's not forget University of Georgia...

Located in Athens, Georgia, the University of Georgia received its charter from the state in 1785, making the University of Georgia the first state-chartered university in the United States. As a result of this distinction UGA brands itself as the "birthplace of the American system of higher education." A site was selected for the university, and it began admitting students, in 1801.

The College of William & Mary was not originally a public school. It used to be private.

It depends how you define "public university." If you mean "a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government," then the oldest public university is either UGA, UNC or William & Mary. If, on the other hand, you mean "a cracked out hell hole in a state that stinks like sewage," then you're right on the money.

Hey, Calm Down Everyone, being a proud Rutgers alum, I wonder where you are from? Paris? Nirvana? New Jersey is much more likely to be higher income and possess more natural and achitectural beauty than wherever you're residing. But, you know, it's so easy and typical to use "Joisey" jokes when you've never been to the state.

Joyzee has the fattest governor. He would have run for pres. but he would have had to waddle for pres. Not an appealing sight. I went to Rutgers S J in Camden once- that was enough.