25 colleges where students love life
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Students love attending the University of Texas at Austin.
When choosing where to go to college, academics isn’t the only factor to consider. College years are formative for young adults, so the extracurricular, recreational, and social opportunities offered by schools play an important role in the overall collegiate experience.
Business Insider included student-life rankings in its recent list of the 50 best colleges in America, drawing data from Niche, a company that compiles research on schools.
Niche assessed the social and community life of universities and provided letter grades based on factors like campus quality, diversity, party scene, student retention, safety, and athletics. (Read the full methodology here.)
To highlight the schools that students love attending, here are the 25 colleges with the highest student-life scores on Niche. Big state schools dominated the list, with the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison earning the top three spots.
Read on to check out the full list.
25. Indiana University at Bloomington
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A+
Diversity: B+
Local area: A
24. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Champaign, Illinois
Campus quality: A
Party scene: A+
Diversity: A-
Local area: B+
23. Tulane University
Location: New Orleans
Campus quality: A
Party scene: A+
Diversity: B
Local area: A+
22. Brown University
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Campus quality: A
Party scene: A
Diversity: A+
Local area: A
21. University of Florida
Location: Gainesville, Florida
Campus quality: A
Party scene: A+
Diversity: B+
Local area: A-
20. Georgetown University
Location: Washington, D.C.
Campus quality: B+
Party scene: A+
Diversity: A
Local area: A
19. Michigan State University
Location: East Lansing, Michigan
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A+
Diversity: B+
Local area: A
18. University of Miami
Location: Coral Gables, Florida
Campus quality: A-
Party scene: A+
Diversity: A+
Local area: A
17. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A
Diversity: B
Local area: A
16. University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia
Campus quality: A
Party scene: A+
Diversity: A+
Local area: A
15. Ohio State University
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A+
Diversity: B-
Local area: A
14. University of California at Santa Barbara
Location: Santa Barbara, California
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A+
Diversity: A-
Local area: A
13. Vanderbilt University
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A+
Diversity: A-
Local area: A-
12. Rice University
Location: Houston
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A
Diversity: A+
Local area: A-
11. Washington University in St. Louis
Location: St. Louis
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A
Diversity: A
Local area: A-
10. University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Campus quality: A
Party scene: A+
Diversity: B
Local area: A-
9. Penn State
Location: State College, Pennsylvania
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A+
Diversity: B+
Local area: A
8. University of California at Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A
Diversity: A
Local area: A+
7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A
Diversity: A+
Local area: A+
6. University of Southern California
Location: Los Angeles
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A+
Diversity: A+
Local area: A
5. Yale University
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A
Diversity: A+
Local area: B+
4. University of Georgia
Location: Athens, Georgia
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A+
Diversity: B-
Local area: A
3. University of Wisconsin
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A+
Diversity: B+
Local area: A+
2. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A+
Diversity: A-
Local area: A
1. University of Texas at Austin
Location: Austin, Texas
Campus quality: A+
Party scene: A+
Diversity: A-
Local area: A+
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