Colleges With The HAPPIEST Students (PHOTOS): Princeton Review List

Every college brochure features them -- groups of beaming students outfitted in school sweatshirts, lounging in expanses of green and cradling heavy books. But at which schools are co-eds really happy? In its latest college rankings, the Princeton Review surveyed 122,000 students to find out. (See the Review's site for the full list.)

Would you consider your college "happy"? Why or why not? Weigh in below.

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[Creighton Brown]

12:19 PM on 08/19/2010

They should have included Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Everyone loves a Happy Cobber!

[YouDontWantMeHere]

10:52 AM on 08/14/2010

a wet t-shirt contest story would do

[Palaver]

01:54 PM on 08/11/2010

Happy people usually aren't very prepared for the real world. x)

[Lordemil]

08:08 AM on 08/22/2010

Ridiculous, Happy people are what make the world a better place.

[clemsonorangetheta]

11:46 PM on 08/10/2010

This must not be in any particular order. I am a graduate of Clemson University and we are #2 on the actual Princeton Review ranking, but listed as #5 on here. That's a shame to people in the Tiger family. We pride ourselves in everything our school accomplishes and know that as alumni our degrees continue to gain value. I know this might seem petty and picky, but I love knowing that I have bragging rights over other universities and it helps when all the publishing match.

[TeeSC]

03:09 PM on 08/11/2010

GO TIGERS!!! I loooooveee those state braggin' rights over Carolina too. :-)

[cincinnati]

04:10 PM on 08/09/2010

I know a recent grad of the great school U. of Chicago. She and friends say it is all work and little play, student activities or nearby things to do are just not that much compared to many schools. And some old prof's that are beyond their time.

And they say at Chicago.....if we wanted A's we'd have gone to Harvard !

[equianimi]

11:03 AM on 08/08/2010

So really it's the schools full of rich kids. So it's not so much the school itself making them happy but it's the load of wealth they have.

[bookhenge]

10:47 PM on 08/08/2010

Sorry to burst your sour grapes, but W&M is a public school, with very reasonable in-state tuition.

I'm starting there in two weeks, using my GI Bill from spending 4 years in the military. Hardly a spoiled rich kid ecstatic with my vault of gold coins.

But generalizations are fun!

[invergarry]

08:20 AM on 08/14/2010

Clemson is an ag school and part of the state university system in South Carolina--hardly a "school full of rich kids."

[KarateKid]

11:15 PM on 08/07/2010

I was pretty happy at UC Berkeley. But then, I was high a lot of the time........

[Black Guy at Cornell]

02:33 AM on 08/06/2010

Cornell's a great school! Everyone here is happy!

What's that? ANOTHER suicide? Geez, man...

If you enjoy the aesthetic beauty of 15-foot chainlink fences on your morning amble to class, come to Cornell!

Oh, and it's an awesome school with an awesome English department.

[Manwhatthe]

02:58 PM on 08/07/2010

You're name is hilarious.

[IraniBoy]

12:04 AM on 08/09/2010

YOUR knowledge of English, too!

[jrsunsh]

11:23 AM on 08/05/2010

Idk where Princeton review is going to but its obviously not Yale, Colgate, or William and Mary....

[cadetland]

02:50 PM on 08/04/2010

Hey, why isn't West Point on this list??? Oh, wait... it's West Point.

[NeverEndingWars]

06:04 AM on 08/04/2010

Your whole country could would be a lot happier if you stopped playing the idiotic libs vs cons game and started learning from successful MODERN countries.

But no, you think you always know better when day after day its proven you do NOT.

[OBR]

07:07 AM on 08/04/2010

Please name a few of those so call
successful countries

[NeverEndingWars]

07:20 AM on 08/04/2010

Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Malaysia, China, Japan, Germany, etc etc.

Even lower middle class here lives much better than middle class in the USA.

[OBR]

11:30 AM on 08/04/2010

How about free countries not socialist countries
there is a price to pay to live in a free country and its worth it

[ilovesushi]

11:35 AM on 08/04/2010

But we have plutocracy

[NeverEndingWars]

02:24 PM on 08/04/2010

America is a free country? ahaha I lived there 30 years and now 20 years in Europe /. We are much more free here.....

You are clueless.

[sheoples]

02:11 AM on 08/04/2010

i went to a no name alphabet college. i think it was one of the most depressing places. :-(

my college degree is about as much as a toilet paper.

[sidneyjx]

02:04 AM on 08/04/2010

You young folks don't know what happy campus life is.
Here's happy: I attended UC Berkeley back when the tuition was cheap and you didn't have to be a genius to be a student there.
Making life at that school even happier for me was my habit of attending classes accompanied by my great Dane, Ebony. Oh, happy days.

Sid Jones
Class of 74

[drob20]

08:51 AM on 08/05/2010

Yeah, and GET OFF MY LAWN!

[Lohikaarme]

01:41 AM on 08/04/2010

I thought the main purpose to go to college is to learn something useful than one use for the rest of our life, meet interesting people, and hopefully have a job after graduation. Happiness is within each of us to make it happen or not. Being in this college or that college has nothing to do with happiness. If you believe that then you don't know what being happy means.

[jasev01]

01:06 AM on 08/04/2010

Way to go Brown! Ever true, we love out college dear