--- title: These Colleges Are GrubHub's Best Tippers and Politest Customers description: Also campuses with most healthy orders and most dessert orders canonical: https://time.com/3145481/grubhub-college-ranking/ author: Jack Linshi article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-19T21:09:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:34.442Z og:title: These Colleges Are the Best Tippers and the Most Polite Customers og:description: According to GrubHub og:url: https://time.com/3145481/grubhub-college-ranking/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3eca9e68c43278d/6986a0251eebf788813724fe/pizza-college-students.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: pizza-college-students og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Colleges Are the Best Tippers and the Most Polite Customers twitter:description: According to GrubHub twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3eca9e68c43278d/6986a0251eebf788813724fe/pizza-college-students.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # These Colleges Are The Best Tippers and The Most Polite Customers > Sponsored content. 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Here are some highlights from the results, available [on GrubHub’s blog](http://blog.grubhub.com/grublife/college-eating-habits-presented-grubhub-spoon-university/). **Highest tip percentages:** 1. Virginia Tech 2. University of Delaware 3. University of Colorado 4. Towson University 5. University of Virginia **Highest percentage of orders with “please” or “thank you”:** 1. University of Pennsylvania 2. Yale University 3. University of the Sciences 4. Loyola University of Chicago 5. The College of New Jersey **Most late-night orders:** 1. Syracuse University 2. Michigan State University 3. University of Connecticut 4. Ithaca College 5. The Ohio State University **Most health-conscious:** 1. Georgetown University 2. University of Notre Dame 3. University of Tennessee 4. Lafayette College 5. Central Connecticut State University **Most vegetarian diners:** 1. Cornell University 2. Yale University 3. School of the Art Institute of Chicago 4. University of Chicago – Booth School of Business 5. Columbia College **Most dessert orders:** 1. Regis University 2. University of Texas 3. University of Tennessee 4. University of Illinois 5. 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