No Last Call: Unigo's Top 10 Party Schools (PHOTOS)

The country's top party schools are ranked again and again -- but what really separates the rowdy campuses from the quiet?

Unigo went to students to find out -- and their testimonials don't sugarcoat the truth. See at which schools the students work hard, play hard and perhaps enjoy the occasional "morning cocktail."

What do you think? Make a case for your college in the comments section.

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University of California Santa Cruz

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Perhaps the school color of the University of California-Santa Cruz should be ... green. According to students, group light-up sessions are not uncommon. As one student reviewer put it, “4/20 is a big deal to a lot of people here.” Another student stated, “as good or bad as it may sound, everyone at UCSC is in some way a hippie, a stoner, a free-loader, a vegan, an environmentalist, a tree-hugger.” And, since the UCSC campus is located on a 2,000-acre defunct timber ranch, students report it’s never too hard to find some “trees.”

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Perhaps the school color of the University of California-Santa Cruz should be ... green. According to students, group light-up sessions are not uncommon. As one student reviewer put it, “4/20 is a big deal to a lot of people here.” Another student stated, “as good or bad as it may sound, everyone at UCSC is in some way a hippie, a stoner, a free-loader, a vegan, an environmentalist, a tree-hugger.” And, since the UCSC campus is located on a 2,000-acre defunct timber ranch, students report it’s never too hard to find some “trees.”

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[Jason Malcore]

02:08 PM on 09/07/2010

Your picture here of Univ. of Wisconsin is of UW-Milwaukee... Yeah if your going to rank a school make sure you at least get the picture right. Its like substituting UC-Santa Barbara in for UC-Berkeley just because your too lazy to get the picture right.

[Mike169]

05:11 PM on 09/07/2010

Maybe he's just drunk.

[usamade]

11:29 AM on 09/01/2010

I pay a fortune for my son to go to the best parties at Penn State :)

[Mary Sue]

03:26 AM on 08/31/2010

Good information here. I really enjoy reading them every day. I've learned a lot from them.

http://nationtv.co.uk/

[Forester]

01:24 AM on 08/31/2010

No! Not the Fighting Banana Slugs!
NOOOOOOOOO!

[Shaun Peace]

05:48 PM on 08/30/2010

where's U of I on this list? SMH. We party like none other: frats, bars, apartment parties, student organizations, etc.

[Andrea Castaeda]

03:49 AM on 09/04/2010

Just like any other American institution! :O

[Miz EEEEEEEE]

05:33 PM on 08/30/2010

I can't believe that Arizona State was not included. Everyone knows about the partying at that school.

[Mike169]

05:12 PM on 09/07/2010

I think they were under the schools that look most like a desert.

[BethCarter320]

01:11 PM on 08/30/2010

This list comes out a few times a year from different sources and I am always tempted to check it. What is surprising to me, is the number of schools with high-end reputations (Vanderbuilt and UMass) that made the list. Well if some schools are teaching reality TV as a subject, (http://blog.oppapers.com/reality-television-as-a-teaching-tool-in-college-classrooms/) I guess this isn't so surprising after all. College has definitely changed since I graduated a few years ago.

[Lisa Shields]

08:25 AM on 08/30/2010

Back in the dark ages (1978) I began my freshman year at Glassboro State College (Now Rowan University) to the unhappy news that we had been honored as Playboy Magazine's number one Party School in the country.

I went for the Journalism major...but whenever I see one of these articles, I cringe for the kids who chose the college for something other than it's rep for keggers.

[EricBishop]

07:04 AM on 08/30/2010

Vandy is filled with three things. One, 70% losers who will stay in the south, enjoy RIDICULOUS grade infalation for 4 years and lord their connections and patronage over the, two, 29% morons would spent 18 years working their way out the horrible social structure that keeps the South as an ignorant sub state within its own borders somehow decide to reenlist in an intellectual and emotional slavery immediately after graduation, and three 1% who move to a northeastern, midwestern or western economic hub and use their southern novelty-identity to insert themselves into the prevailing climate.

[npnr]

09:25 PM on 08/31/2010

sorry for partying

[Amber Lynn]

03:01 AM on 08/30/2010

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[throwcautiontothewind]

12:34 PM on 08/29/2010

University of Texas at Austin routinely makes national lists (often at the top), but not this one.

[RocksForJocks]

01:35 PM on 08/29/2010

Party schools basically equal SEC schools, Texas, Ohio State and the like. I still cannot get over that this list has UMass Amherst on it. What a joke.

Please reference USNWR if you want a more accurate listing.

[RocksForJocks]

01:37 PM on 08/29/2010

And yeah, on this list, UGA and Vandy are the lowest ranked by HuffPost viewers. Easily the two biggest party schools on this list. These people have clearly never been to Athens.

[Chuck Ott]

01:24 AM on 08/29/2010

What!!! Montana State University didn't make it onto this list? Arrgh!!! Nor did Portland School of Art (now known as Maine College of Art). Well, I remember having great parties at both places but I guess they weren't great enough to be known nationally. Or at least to the organization that posted this list.

Party on!!!

[Jon Frost]

11:31 AM on 08/29/2010

Seconding Montana State, I'm starting my sophomore year here in Bozeman, and we seriously know how to RAGE up here. Between Roskie, the mountain raves, and the near-daily parties, it's a miracle anyone's even functional in this town. :D

[butofcourse]

08:34 PM on 08/28/2010

Sigh! This is what my alma mater is known for? Hosting the Grateful Dead archives and being a school for hippies, stoners and vegans? Somewhat, but it ain't the whole story. I had lots of fun at UC Santa Cruz, but also had great professors and worked pretty hard, too.

[Andman0121]

01:45 PM on 08/28/2010

UM, this list is ridiculous. I went to Ohio University where its been ranked in the top THREE party schools in the nation for the past fifteen years yet it is noticeably absent. You havent been to a party school until you stop down to Athens.

[octapie]

09:42 PM on 08/28/2010

I was thinking the same thing. I was sure OU would be there.

[RocksForJocks]

12:25 PM on 08/28/2010

This list is, for the most part, COMPLETELY BOGUS. What is also ridiculous are HuffPost user rankings. Although I love all the "1 to 10 ranking" pages, I find that if there is anything with which an entry can be associated with Republicans, Conservatives, Red State, etc., HuffPost readers automatically dock it on the 1 to 10. This must be the case with UGA. Georgia is indeed a pretty backwards state politically, but politics has nothing to do with partying at a University.

Have any of you ever partied, tailgated or been to a football game at Georgia? It's another planet. Absolutely incredible. I am from Seattle, but god I wish I could have gone to UGA for undergrad.

And yeah... UMass Amherst higher than Georgia.... LOL