Dude! Major In Parties At Florida State

Go, Seminoles! Florida State University is No. 1 - in partying.

FSU was named the top-ranked party school nationwide in the latest Princeton Review’s “Advantage Guide to the Best 310 Colleges.”

It dethroned three-time champion University of Rhode Island, which banned alcohol on campus last year. George Washington University in Washington was No. 2 and arch-rival University of Florida came in third.

“Oh that’s good,” said Tom Guillot, a 22-year-old junior at FSU. “We beat ‘em again. We beat ‘em in everything.”

Florida State was ranked fourth in partying in the guide’s first edition 1993, and then came in second three years in a row behind Rhode Island. This is the first year it’s in first place.

Rounding out the top 10 party schools: University of California, Santa Barbara (4), Emerson College (5), University of Wisconsin, Madison (6), St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s City, Md. (7), State University of New York, Albany (8), Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y., (9), University of Vermont, Burlington (10).

The Princeton Review publishes the annual guide to colleges for high school seniors. Its party-school ranking was based on a survey of 56,000 students at the 310 colleges listed.

The survey also ranked “Great food,” (Deep Springs College was No. 1); “Dorms like palaces,” (Agnes Scott College); “School runs like butter (U.S. Military Academy); and “Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution” (Brigham Young University).