Wisconsin ranked No. 1 party school

MADISON, Wis. — University of WisconsinMadison leaders are chafing under a stateimposed tuition freeze and the football team didn’t crack the Top 25 preseason rankings. But no school in the country throws a better party, according to the Princeton Review’s 2017 edition of “The Best 381 Colleges.”

The Princeton Review is a New York tutoring, test prep and college admission services company that publishes a book every year ranking colleges in 62 categories. This year’s edition is based on an online survey of 143,000 students at colleges selected by an editorial board.

The survey asked students about alcohol and drug use on campus, the popularity of Greek life and the number of hours they study each day outside of class.

UW-Madison is famous for its parties, especially Halloween and an end-of-year block party. Every home football game is preceded by hours of off-site drinking.

It was last named No. 1 party school in the 2005 survey. Princeton Review Publisher Rob Franek noted that the school has ranked among the Top 20 party schools in 22 surveys over the last 25 years.

West Virginia University in Morgantown came in second, followed by the University of Illinois’ flagship campus in Urbana-Champaign, which was ranked No. 1 last year. Two Pennsylvania schools — Lehigh University and Bucknell University — filled out the top five listing.