Ole Miss ranked No.16 top party school

Well surprise, surprise, the annual Princeton Review Top 20 Party Schools list is out and Ole Miss is again on the list, as well as a few other southern schools.

The Princeton Review has been compiling these rankings since 1992 and publish them each year in a book “The Best 379 Colleges.” The rankings are based on surveys from 130,000 students across the country and cover everything from academics to which school had the worst on-campus food (that’s the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in New York, by the way).

Ole Miss and Tulane made the list of top 20 “Party Schools,” joined by other southern stalwarts Florida, Florida State and Georgia. Syracuse took the top spot.

October 13, 2012; Oxford, MS, USA; Mississippi Rebels fans in the Grove before the game against the Auburn Tigers at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Chuck Cook – USA TODAY Sports

Some of you may be disappointed, (or proud depending on which way you look at things) to know that Ole Miss has fallen quite a bit on this list since being No.3 in 2011 all the way down to No.16 in 2014.

Ole Miss also landed the No.8 spot among the schools with the “Most Beautiful Campuses,” no surprise there.

Also ranked were schools that were either the “Most LGBT Friendly” or “Least LGBT Unfriendly.”

Unsurprisingly, Christian schools dominated the “Least LGBT Friendly” list, led by College of the Ozarks. However, Ole Miss also made that list as well as Notre Dame, Auburn, Tennessee and Texas A&M.

Ole Miss was the runner-up to Monmouth University in New Jersey on the “Study the Least” list, which also included UNO, South Carolina and Florida State.

A few lists we didn’t make were… “Reefer Madness” which ranked the top schools for their marijuana use, the “Lots of Hard Liquor” list (I was surprised about that one), or the “Study the Most” list, but neither did any other school south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Hotty Toddy!