Top Party School: Iowa Takes Title, BYU Named Top Sober School by Princeton Review

Every year the Princeton Review releases a list of ranking the top 20 party schools as well as the top 20 "stone-cold sober" schools in the nation. Unsurprisingly Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, won the title of most sober university while the University of Iowa was named the number one party school after finishing second on the list last year, according the Associated Press.

While students in Iowa City are bound to celebrate the announcement with a few adult beverages administrators were less than pleased to find themselves at the top of the list. A spokesman from the university, Tom Moore, was pleased to find the school described as an affordable Big Ten university where students are able to balance their social and academic lives, according to the Associated Press.

"We are continuing to work to change the culture on our campus by educating students to consume alcohol in a legal, safe and responsible manner, and those efforts are achieving results," Moore said.

Prior to 2010 it patrons of Iowa City's bars only needed to be 19 years of age, now the age has been raised to 21. While the younger patrons couldn't drink legally in the bars it should come as no surprise that many of them did. Voters in Iowa City will decide if they wish to keep the law the same or return back to the pre-2010 regulations this November, according to the Des Moines Register.

"In each of the last four years, alcohol harm to our students has decreased," Moore told the Des Moines Register. "It is, frankly, still too high. We are heartened, though, by the steady progress we have made, and are committed to continuing this progress."

The Hawkeyes were joined by three other Big Ten schools in the top 10: third ranked Illinois, eighth ranked Wisconsin and ninth ranked Penn State. Iowa was followed in the top five by UC Santa Barbara, Illinois, West Virginia and Syracuse.

On the flip side of the coin BYU was proud to be named the top sober school for the 16th year in a row. Following the Mormon school on the list were Wheaton College, the College of the Ozarks, Thomas Aquinas College and the U.S. Military Academy. Unsurprisingly the other two Naval Academy and the Coast Guard Academy join their friends from West Point on the list.