{"id":336887,"date":"2026-09-03T09:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336887\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:40:32","slug":"americas-top-party-schools-revealed-and-new-york-is-no-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336887\/","title":{"rendered":"America’s top party schools revealed \u2014 and New York is no fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York gets an F in fun!<\/p>\n

A list of the nation\u2019s \u201ctop party schools\u201d of 2027<\/a> revealed the Empire State is a rager-deprived dud \u2014\u00a0with only two colleges earning a spot in the rankings.<\/p>\n

The keg is kicked everywhere except Syracuse University and SUNY Albany, the only New York colleges that made the list of 50 best party schools, compiled by the education research site<\/a> <\/a>niche.com<\/p>\n

Students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison \u2014 the number five party college in the nation according to a recent list \u2014 at a tailgate on Sept. 10, 2022. Boston Globe via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Will Ferrell is seen playing Frank Ricard in \u201cOld School\u201d (2003). DreamWorks\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

Syracuse, which has a booming off-campus house party culture<\/a>, was named No. 14 while SUNY Albany <\/a>landed at number 45, according to the list, released this week.<\/p>\n

Florida State University in Tallahassee\u2014 known for its wild Greek bashes \u2014 ranked No. 1 on the list followed by Tulane, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Dayton in Ohio and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania State University<\/a>, recently in the news for a cocaine trafficking ring involving two frats, came in 6th place.<\/p>\n

\tThe top 50 party schools of 2027 are:<\/p>\n

1. Florida State<\/p>\n

2. Tulane<\/p>\n

3. <\/a>Wisconsin <\/p>\n

4. Dayton<\/p>\n

5. USC<\/p>\n

6. Penn State<\/p>\n

7. Ohio State<\/p>\n

8. Georgia<\/p>\n

9. West Virginia<\/p>\n

10. Ilinois<\/p>\n

11. Morgan State<\/p>\n

12.Texas<\/p>\n

13. Alabama<\/p>\n

14. Syracuse<\/p>\n

15. Howard<\/p>\n

16.Texas Southern<\/p>\n

17.Michigan State<\/p>\n

18. San Diego State<\/p>\n

19. Indiana<\/p>\n

20. Ohio<\/p>\n

21. Miami Ohio<\/p>\n

22. Miami (Fla.)<\/p>\n

23. Clark Atlanta<\/p>\n

24. Florida A&M<\/p>\n

25. Colorado<\/p>\n

26. UC Santa Barbara<\/p>\n

27. Ole Miss<\/p>\n

28. Michigan<\/p>\n

29. Iowa<\/p>\n

30. Tennessee State<\/p>\n

31. University of Tampa<\/p>\n

32. Penn<\/p>\n

33. Lehigh<\/p>\n

34. Providence<\/p>\n

35. South Carolina<\/p>\n

36. Clemson<\/p>\n

37. Virginia<\/p>\n

38. Washington State<\/p>\n

39. Kansas<\/p>\n

40. Temple<\/p>\n

41. Morehouse College<\/p>\n

42. James Madison<\/p>\n

43. Delaware<\/p>\n

44. North Carolina A&T<\/p>\n

45. SUNY Albany<\/p>\n

46. Texas Tech<\/p>\n

47. Florida<\/p>\n

48. Texas State<\/p>\n

49. Vanderbilt<\/p>\n

50. Arizona<\/p>\n

To come up with the list, niche.com surveyed students, asking them to rate their colleges based on factors such as nightlife, Greek life, and access to bars.<\/p>\n

Bruce McGill, Douglas Kenney, and Peter Riegert are seen in \u201cNational Lampoon\u2019s Animal House\u201d (1978). Universal\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 2027 Top Party Schools ranking is based on student reviews and nightlife statistics. Top party colleges have a vibrant and diverse party scene \u2014 they offer fun options both on and off campus and students rate their peers as being fun, friendly, and into partying,\u201d niche.com said.<\/p>\n

For the ranking, researchers considered more than 1,400 schools\u00a0nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York gets an F in fun! A list of the nation\u2019s \u201ctop party schools\u201d of 2027 revealed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1692,126574,9,11,10,8368,5271,58],"class_list":["post-336887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-colleges-and-universities","tag-greek-life","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-parties","tag-schools","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}