The Least Sexually Healthy Colleges: Trojan Health Report Card 2012

Sexual health is an incredibly important issue for today's colleges students. With 15 to 24-year-olds accounting for 48% of newly diagnosed STIs, it is especially important for college students to be sexually educated.

In order to more accurately assess campus sexual health, Trojan recently released their list of the 10 least sexually healthy colleges. Trojan, (yes, that's right, the condom brand) evaluated college health centers and campuses for the quality, comprehensiveness and cost-effectiveness of their sexual education and health centers.

Check out our slide show of the 10 least sexually healthy colleges. Then tell us, what do you think of this list? Weigh in below!

These are the 10 schools at the bottom of Trojan's report card:

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• 141 U.S. Air Force Academy

• 140. Brigham Young University

• 139. Providence College

• 138. Troy State University

  (On April 16, 2004, the Board of Trustees voted to change the name <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_University">of the institution from</a> Troy State University to Troy University - Trojan referred to them as Troy State University though)

• 137. Chicago State University

• 136. University of New Orleans

• 135. St. John's University-New York

• 134. Louisiana Tech University

• 133. Savannah State University

• 132. Seton Hall University

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Comments

[xxixpines]

09:52 PM on 05/23/2013

Well is this not interesting? I thought the faith was oversensitve about sexual matters so sensitive that any discussion of mormon sexual matters were driven right off of the posting pages.

[bklurbeltz]

11:06 AM on 05/13/2013

I created a visualization of this data, in case anyone is still reading. I think it's a more effective way to look at it. http://www.legalinfo360.com/2013/05/sexual-health-in-college-how-does-your-school-measure-up/

[Rachel Stein]

04:58 PM on 12/12/2012

As a current student at Brigham Young University, I would say that the lack of sexual knowledge the students at the University have is due to poor personal responsibility to be informed about this topic and not the fault of the University. I'm not sure what other Universities charge for birth control, but it can be purchased at the BYU Health Center for around $8 and that is reportedly on the more expensive side. Also, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches the law of Chasity and students are expected to adhere to that law as part of the Honor Code which every student is required to sign, but does not encourage ignorance on the topic of sex or sexual safety. Also, to note, only 25% of all BYU students are married, this includes undergraduate and graduate students.

[Fargendaaz]

04:57 AM on 12/12/2012

The photo of St John's uni New York is actually a picture of a random building in Britain. Can tell from the traffic lights and the left hand lane driving.

[papercraftbliss]

12:44 PM on 12/12/2012

Yes, it's of St John's University in York, UK.

[hazyafternoonsunshine]

08:03 PM on 12/11/2012

While I think the concept of measuring sexual health on college campuses is a worthy endeavor, the results would be more credible if they had come from an impartial source. Forgive me for cynically seeing this as a cheap marketing ploy to increase revenues in sales territories that may be weak for this particular brand.

[J R M]

07:35 PM on 12/11/2012

The BYU administration, and the LDS church, expect the students to live by their standards, not those of the popular culture - and the students going there know it. They are told explicitly before they come and the rules are clearly stated to them while they are there.

I don't see any point complaining that BYU doesn't conform to the popular culture. It specifically opposes it.

My 2d daughter did her History degree there. She moved out of on-campus housing to stay with her Sensi and his wife, who sort of adopted her. So far as BYU was concerned, she was staying with her sister. My daughter's problem with the Women's dorms at BYU was that it was hard to study because so many of the young women were focused upon marrying returned missionaries. There is a very high marriage rate among the students at BYU and a very large married student housing area. It was known (and probably still is) as "Rabbit Hill". For obvious reasons.

[boscobear]

02:12 PM on 12/11/2012

One or two sentences explaining why they were seleceted would be nice.

[BigWillyG]

02:59 PM on 12/11/2012

"evaluated college health centers and campuses for the quality, comprehensiveness and cost-effectiveness of their sexual education and health centers."

It was sort of in there but they buried it in the middle of the story. Probably because this is based on teaching not actual sexual health.

[BigWillyG]

02:11 PM on 12/11/2012

Wouldn't actual sexual health matter more than what the health centers do or how many safe sex posters the RAs put up? Seems like actual STD rates would be a much better judge.

[joeg2028]

01:07 PM on 12/11/2012

Hmm. It seems that they're all either (a) Catholic schools, (b) schools in the South, or (c) Mormon. All of them want to live in the past. (But my memory could have failed between viewing the list and here.)

[bahramthered]

02:20 PM on 12/11/2012

They're all of the delusion that people will find their own true love and never touch another person. So need to need of protection between virgins on their way to be a baby factory.

[ricchh]

12:57 PM on 12/11/2012

The picture of "Providence College" is actually the Brown University gates. Two VERY different schools.

[Momfrog Lorita]

10:44 AM on 12/11/2012

I'm not surprised BYU is in the bottom 10 ... actually just 1 away from being the worst. I was amazed when I went there to see how ignorant (yup, that's the right word) most of my roommates/friends were about anything having to do with sex. Seems the kids who came there from other states knew a lot more than those who had grown up in the protective bubble of mostly Mormon communities. Which is too bad, really. You can teach correct moral values while still educating about everything you would need to know for sexual health.

[Hannah F]

08:28 AM on 12/11/2012

So the Mormon Factory and rapey Armed Forces schools are the bottom two.

I am shocked.