West Virginia has best US university ... for a good party: study
West Virginia University in the United States has been voted the best institute of higher education ... for party animals, an annual survey conducted by the Princeton Review showed Tuesday.
In fact, West Virginia University was ranked among the top 10 out in seven categories, beating stiff competition from some 365 other schools whose students took part in the survey.
Princeton Review asked 120,000 students at top universities across the United States to rate their schools in several categories, ranging from how book-wormish students are to how much beer is available.
West Virginia University ranked fifth in the "Best College Library" category, behind such prestigious institutions as first-placed Harvard and runner-up Princeton.
But its students also beat all other comers in the "almost never study" category.
It ranked sixth for beer consumption, seventh in the "lots of hard liquor category" and was beaten by Warren Wilson College in North Carolina to a measly 11th place for marijuana availability.
At the other end of the spectrum in the party school category was Brigham Young University in Utah, which was voted the "most stone-cold sober school."
Brigham Young, where the large majority of students are Mormons, also ranked tops for the number of students who pray on a daily basis.
Students at Virginia Tech said their school had the best cafeteria food, while George Washington University was voted the most politically active school -- not unexpected as it is located in the US capital.
The best professors are to be found at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, alma mater of Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.
And the toughest universities to get into are, in order, Harvard, Princeton, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale, all part of the so-called Ivy League on the east coast of the US, according to the study.
AFP
