2008 Woodie Awards
CMU voted 19th party school
By: Mike Wayland
Issue date: 11/19/07 Section: News
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Central Michigan University is ranked 19th among some of the most prestigious universities in the nation - for partying.
CollegeHumor.com posted its second annual "Power Rankings" of America's top colleges last week.
"We thought: 'where would Ferris Bueller want to go to school to have the most amount of fun with the least amount of work?'" said Jeff Rubin, managing editor of CollegeHumor.com.
Schools were judged on 13 non-traditional categories, including percentage of females, bar closing times, pictures uploaded to the Web site, male vocal groups, cute college girls and the closest Taco Bell location.
"The rankings are supposed to be funny," Rubin said. "(The rankings) represent the funniest schools in America, not the smartest."
Other categories used to rank the schools this year were average SAT score, percentage Greek and average February temperatures.
Male vocal groups are the least cool thing the College Humor staff could think of and universities lost points for having them, Rubin said.
"I don't want to judge, but it sucks fun out of the school," he said.
Once each category was calculated, the scores were averaged together to have a raw score that was then put onto a 100-point scale.
"We're a pretty big party school, I've gone to other schools to party and never had as much fun as I do here," said Lauren Brantley, a Farmington senior.
Penn State was ranked No. 1 with a perfect final score of 100, while CMU scored 81.3.
Michigan State University placed 10th and the University of Michigan came in at No. 46 on the list of 50 schools.
It's been 20 years since CMU was ranked 16th in Playboy Magazine's 1987 list of party schools.
"Student's are coming here for the same reasons as back in the '80's," said Director of Student Life Tony Voisin, a CMU alumnus.
Students come here to get a solid education, not to make some party list, he said.
Voisin said the ratings seem a little ridiculous and while CMU wants its students to enjoy the college experience, the university does not advocate partying.
ColleHumor.com receives 500,000 to 600,000 visits per day and much of its content is created by college students, Rubin said.
In the 2006 Power Rankings, Michigan State University was ranked No. 1, the University of Michigan No. 10 and CMU was ranked 33rd. That makes CMU the only Michigan school to rise in the rankings.
For the complete 2007-2008 Power Rankings and descriptions of each category, visit collegehumor.com/rankings.
news@cm-life.com
CollegeHumor.com posted its second annual "Power Rankings" of America's top colleges last week.
"We thought: 'where would Ferris Bueller want to go to school to have the most amount of fun with the least amount of work?'" said Jeff Rubin, managing editor of CollegeHumor.com.
Schools were judged on 13 non-traditional categories, including percentage of females, bar closing times, pictures uploaded to the Web site, male vocal groups, cute college girls and the closest Taco Bell location.
"The rankings are supposed to be funny," Rubin said. "(The rankings) represent the funniest schools in America, not the smartest."
Other categories used to rank the schools this year were average SAT score, percentage Greek and average February temperatures.
Male vocal groups are the least cool thing the College Humor staff could think of and universities lost points for having them, Rubin said.
"I don't want to judge, but it sucks fun out of the school," he said.
Once each category was calculated, the scores were averaged together to have a raw score that was then put onto a 100-point scale.
"We're a pretty big party school, I've gone to other schools to party and never had as much fun as I do here," said Lauren Brantley, a Farmington senior.
Penn State was ranked No. 1 with a perfect final score of 100, while CMU scored 81.3.
Michigan State University placed 10th and the University of Michigan came in at No. 46 on the list of 50 schools.
It's been 20 years since CMU was ranked 16th in Playboy Magazine's 1987 list of party schools.
"Student's are coming here for the same reasons as back in the '80's," said Director of Student Life Tony Voisin, a CMU alumnus.
Students come here to get a solid education, not to make some party list, he said.
Voisin said the ratings seem a little ridiculous and while CMU wants its students to enjoy the college experience, the university does not advocate partying.
ColleHumor.com receives 500,000 to 600,000 visits per day and much of its content is created by college students, Rubin said.
In the 2006 Power Rankings, Michigan State University was ranked No. 1, the University of Michigan No. 10 and CMU was ranked 33rd. That makes CMU the only Michigan school to rise in the rankings.
For the complete 2007-2008 Power Rankings and descriptions of each category, visit collegehumor.com/rankings.
news@cm-life.com
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