Schools That Study The Least: Princeton Review List

Sometimes, studying is a drag! There are other things to do in college, like learn about life!

The Princeton Review has put together their list of the 10 least studious schools. On it? A number of different institutions, including 7 schools in the south. We totally get it -- who would want to study when there is such sunny weather outside?

Check out this list of the 10 least studious schools. Then tell us, do you agree with this list? Weigh in below!

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• 1. The University of Alabama--Tuscaloosa

  University of Alabama student Tyler Womack sets up seat backs on the bleachers at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. Top-ranked Alabama hosts Western Kentucky in an NCAA college football game on Saturday. (AP Photo/The Tuscaloosa News, Michelle Lepianka Carter)

• 2. University of North Dakota

  FILE - This March 16, 2012, file photo shows North Dakota hockey players wearing Fighting Sioux logo jerseys that were replaced by new jerseys during WCHA Final Five Championships in St. Paul, Minn. The years-long battle over the University of North Dakota

• 3. West Virginia University

  FILE - In this Jan. 2, 2008, file photo, West Virginia interim head coach Bill Stewart looks on from the sideline in the first half of the Fiesta Bowl college football game against Oklahoma in Glendale, Ariz. The former coach died Monday, May 21, 2012, of what athletic department officials said was an apparent heart attack. A statement issued by spokesman Michael Fragale said Stewart's family notified the university on Monday. Fragale said Stewart was golfing at the time. Stewart, 59, resigned last summer and was replaced by Dana Holgorsen the same night. Stewart had gone 28-12 in three seasons after taking over for Rich Rodriguez but failed to earn a Bowl Championship Series berth. (AP Photo/Paul Connors, file)

• 4. City University of New York--Baruch College

  New York, NY.

• 5. University of Mississippi

  The photo provided by Ole Miss Communications shows astronomy enthusiasts gather to view the transit of Venus in front of the sun at the Kennon Observatory at The University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., Tuesday, June 5, 2012. From the U.S. to South Korea, people around the world turned their attention to the daytime sky on Tuesday and early Wednesday in Asia to make sure they caught the once-in-a-lifetime sight of the transit of Venus, which won't be seen for another 150 years. (AP Photo/Ole Miss Communications, Nathan Latil)

• 6. University of Maryland-College Park

• 7. Florida State University

  COMMERCIAL IMAGE - In this photograph taken by AP Images for Environmental Defense Fund, Gulf Fisherman's Association and Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders Alliance gather before the Committee on Natural Resources Hearing at the Holley Academic Center Florida State University- Panama City in Panama City, Fla., Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. Attending was House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings and U.S. Representative Steve Southerland, II with the 2nd District of Florida. (Michael Spooneybarger/ AP Images for Environmental Defense Fund)

• 8. University of Iowa

  Iowa City, IA.

• 9. James Madison University

  Harrisonburg, VA.

• 10. The University of Alabama--Birmingham

Comments

[JDHART]

10:41 AM on 11/15/2012

JMU continues to be the most over-rated school. When will they learn?

[RickinBoca]

10:07 PM on 09/21/2012

Q: How do you get a (one of these schools) graduate off your front porch?

A: Pay him for the pizza

[inetjunk]

05:23 PM on 09/21/2012

Depends on what you study. My child graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UMd and I know he worked really hard for it. You can't lump all majors together.

[Charlotte Bonnie]

03:54 PM on 09/21/2012

I'm surprised to see Baruch on the list since it is considered a good school.
Study time also depends on the program though. For example if you're an architecture major you'll pull all nighters whichever school you go.

[stuckinsterne]

01:04 PM on 09/21/2012

UAB? I guess all the biology/chemistry/etc majors were stuck in the Library.

[Edward Goodwin]

03:59 PM on 09/20/2012

The Iowa pic is of an unidentified building in the middle of winter. No description, no identifying anything.

West Virginia is an obit for a football coach, with photo of aforementioned dead coach.

Hey, Can I do one of these "Ten Whatever" things and show pictures of my ten favorite airplanes I took at an air show?

[Jmu1992]

09:57 AM on 09/20/2012

Nice selection of photos. Bill Stewart passed away over the summer and has not coached WVU since 2010, and the JMU picture is probably about 15 years old.

[Kailuabred]

08:55 AM on 09/20/2012

All of these lists (most partying, least studious, most pot smoking, etc...) are lame and have no meaning. That said, some people will use them to make decisions on where to go...or not go, which is unfortunate.

[ramal]

05:50 PM on 09/21/2012

If you are using these listings in choosing your college, then you deserve what you get.

[goldengirl43]

05:34 PM on 09/19/2012

Notice a few jock factories on this list, so this is no surprise. WVU seems to rank at the bottom of all these lists. That place is a HOLE!

[rmorrell]

01:54 PM on 09/19/2012

Really? You post an article chastising the studiousness of students at select Universities and the best photo you can get of James Madison University is over thirty years old? How authoritative can the Princeton Review be, if you cite them and your research is obviously lame. I'm also surprised you decided to use primarily sports related photos to illustrate your story. Are you trying to suggest a connection between successful NCAA sports programs and non-rigorous collegiate academic programs?

[Louie Mangieri]

01:08 PM on 09/19/2012

Wait so is Iowa ranked No.1?

[SangZe]

10:36 AM on 09/19/2012

This meaningless list is based in gross ignorance.

[John Hammontree]

10:34 AM on 09/19/2012

Okay, while I'm not exactly thrilled with Princeton Review's ridiculous methods for determining "Least Studious Schools," it is patently absurd for the author to rearrange the order of these schools to misleadingly indicate that the University of Alabama is #1, not #7 which it is actually ranked. In order to determine the real order of the rankings, you have to click an obscure box marked "Sort By Ranking" otherwise the order is designed to portray Alabama as number #1, when in fact it is Iowa. If you're going to publish a list of the 10 least studious schools, publish the list in order. Don't just fit it into a neat rubric that confirms the bias that "Southern schools are like... dumb and stuff."

[John Hammontree]

10:30 AM on 09/19/2012

The article completely misrepresents the Princeton Rankings. Alabama is listed first when it apparently was actually ranked 7th. Iowa, which actually ranked first, is listed as 8th. The idiocy of the Princeton rankings notwithstanding, the decision of the author to misrepresent the order is questionable at best.

[aussie01]

10:12 AM on 09/19/2012

What a stupid list. Impossible to quantify. It would imply that colleges somehow hold a magical key to each individual's work ethic.

Achiever is as achiever does.