Party is over at Ariz. schools, says Princeton Review’s list

Put another nail in the coffin of Arizona’s “party-school reputation.”

For better or worse, no Arizona universities appeared on the Princeton Review’s list of the top 20 “party schools” in the U.S., released this month as part of a package on “The Best 382 Colleges 2018.” Instead, the top three spots this year went to Tulane University in New Orleans, West Virginia University and Bucknell University in Pennsylvania.

That makes six years in a row the list has been Arizona-free.

The last time any schools in the state made the Princeton Review’s party schools list was in 2011, when Arizona State University was No. 17 for the 2011-12 academic year.

In 2014, Playboy ranked the University of Arizona as its No. 4 party school, thanks to its pool parties and Tucson’s Fourth Avenue bar scene. ASU was No. 9 in 2013, none placed in 2012, and ASU was No. 3 in 2011.

In 2015, neither ASU nor the UA made Playboy’s annual list of “Top 10 Party Schools” for the first time since 2012. It appears Playboy has not released another list since.

ASU was Playboy’s No. 1 party school in the nation in 2002, according to the student-run State Press. But ASU’s reputation took a turn when the school condemned the fraternity housing on Alpha Drive in Tempe in 2011. The last fraternity moved out in 2012.

In 2013, Rolling Stone named ASU’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon the “Most Out-of-Control Fraternity in America.” It was one of the four fraternities ASU banned that school year.