"When it's time to party," Andrew WK famously declared, "we will always party hard." Where do they party the hardest? According to the Princeton Review, the answer is the University of New York at Albany. Other schools that made the top ten list were Washington and Lee, the University of Wisconsin, West Virginia University, Ohio University, Florida State University, the University of Texas-Austin, the University of Georgia, the University of Colorado, and the University of Mississippi.

I've spent a short period of time on a few of these campuses. The party scene at the University of Texas and the University of West Virginia struck me as more of a bar scene. I spoke at Ohio University last semester. On the way to the lecture hall, we passed by some off-campus houses that boasted fully-stocked backyard bars. Students were drinking in the daylight hours. It was a Wednesday. As much as I love speaking, the lecture hall seemed a lot less inviting than the many outdoor parties that lined the route to the event. Ohio University appeared to have earned its reputation as a party school. What's more, the university in Athens, Ohio seemed a fun party school rather than an incoherently drunk party school. To put it in Andrew WK terminology, it was more "Long Live the Party" than "Party 'Til You Puke."

I can attest to UGA being a bar scene type party school as well. Athens Georgia has the highest concentration of bars per capita in the country. It also has a great local music scene as well as getting national acts to come through all the time. With all the music venues it adds to the party atmosphere. It really isn't a bad place to go to school.