--- title: Playboy: Top 10 Party Schools 2014 description: Playboy releases its annual list of the Top 10 party schools. canonical: https://time.com/3378603/playboy-party-schools/ author: Jack Linshi article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-15T15:58:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:11.933Z og:title: These Are Playboy's Top 10 Party Schools og:description: An Ivy League school tops the list. og:url: https://time.com/3378603/playboy-party-schools/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are Playboy's Top 10 Party Schools twitter:description: An Ivy League school tops the list. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Are Playboy's Top 10 Party Schools  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Sep 15, 2014 3:58 PM UTC  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Sep 15, 2014 3:58 PM UTC The University of Pennsylvania’s “work hard, play hard” mentality is paying off. Working hard has made the Ivy League school the [8th best school in the nation](http://time.com/3309924/us-news-world-report-college-ranking/), according to U.S. News, but playing hard has secured it the number 1 spot on _Playboy_‘s ninth annual Top 10 Party Schools. The Quakers are known for their notorious underground frat scene, off-campus parties, Spring Fling and Philadelphia’s big bar scene, according to _Playboy_. Meanwhile, the runner-up, the University of Wisconsin in Madison, earned its spot thanks to its many tailgates, city-wide celebrations and students’ “ability to drink away the freeze.” Here’s the full list: 1\. University of Pennsylvania 2\. University of Wisconsin 3\. West Virginia University 4\. University of Arizona 5\. University of Iowa 6\. University of California, Santa Cruz 7\. University of Miami 8\. Colorado State University 9\. University of Texas 10\. Syracuse University ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3378603/playboy-party-schools/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3378603/playboy-party-schools/"},"headline":"These Are Playboy's Top 10 Party Schools","datePublished":"2014-09-15T15:58:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:11.933Z","description":"An Ivy League school tops the list","url":"https://time.com/3378603/playboy-party-schools/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society","U.S."],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3378603/playboy-party-schools/","name":"These Are Playboy's Top 10 Party Schools"}}]}] ```