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SU named No. 1 party school for 2nd time

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Syracuse University was also named as the No. 3 university where “Students Pack the Stadiums.”

By India Miraglia

Syracuse University is once again the No. 1 party school in the country, leading the Princeton Review’s annual ranking for the second time. 

SU has consistently fallen within the Princeton Review’s top ten “party school list” since 2012, with the university reaching the top of the list for the first time in 2014. For the last two years, SU has sat in the No. 4 spot.

A university is ranked as a party school when surveyed students indicate low personal daily study hours outside of class, high usage of alcohol and drugs on campus and high popularity of Greek life on campus, according to the Princeton Review’s website. 

Rankings were determined using surveys from 140,000 students at 385 schools. The Princeton Review produced the first rankings in 1992. At that time, SU was ranked as the country’s No. 18 party school.

This year, the University of Alabama claimed the No. 2 party school spot, followed by the University of Delaware, West Virginia University and Tulane University.



SU has not released a statement on its party school ranking as of Monday afternoon. When SU was named No. 1 in 2014, university officials said in a statement that they were disappointed in the ranking.

“We do not aspire to be a party school,” the 2014 statement read. “With new leadership, we are very focused on enhancing the student experience, both academically and socially.”

SU also fell to No. 3 this year in “Students Pack the Stadiums,” a ranking of the popularity of a school’s intercollegiate sports. The university previously held the No. 1 spot every year since 2016.

This year, SU jumped from No. 7 to No. 2 on the “Lots of Hard Liquor” list and fell from No. 6 to No. 8 on the “Lots of Beer” list. The university is now ranked No. 17 on the “Lots of Greek Life” list, a slight increase from its No. 18 spot in 2018.

Here are the other lists SU made in the 2019 rankings:

  • “Best College Newspaper”: No. 1
  • “Best College Radio”: No. 6
  • “Everyone Plays Intramural Sports”: No. 7
  • “Most Active Student Government”: No. 9
  • “Most Politically Active Students”: No. 11
  • “Reefer Madness”: No. 19

SUNY-ESF ranked No. 10 on the “This is a Library” list, indicating that students gave the college “low marks” in response to the question of “How do you rate your school’s library facilities?” The college also landed at No. 19 on the “Administrators Get Low Marks” list.

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