Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe GAINESVILLE, Fla., July 28 (UPI) -- The University of Florida has supplanted West Virginia University as the No. 1 party school in the United States, the Princeton Review said Monday. Florida President Bernie Machen said he doesn't like the school being tagged with a reputation for partying. Advertisement "I'm afraid the connotation of a party school that goes around is not such a positive image and in that sense, I don't like it for our university. We're better than that," he told The Gainesville (Fla.) Sun. The party rankings are based on responses from 120,000 students at 368 colleges to questions about alcohol and drug use, the amount of time spent studying, and student interest in fraternities and sororities. Florida jumped up to the top spot from No. 4 last year, No. 11 in 2006 and No. 18 in 2005. It was No. 2 in 1999. No. 2 this year is the University of Mississippi, followed by Penn State University. WVU fell to No. 4 this year, followed by Ohio University, Randolph-Macon College, the University of Georgia, University of Texas-Austin, University of California-Santa Barbara and Florida State University, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Advertisement The next tier includes: New Hampshire, Iowa, Colorado, Indiana, Tulane, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Arizona State, Tennessee, Alabama and Loyola University-New Orleans.
