Now you know how your hard-earned tuition money is being spent.
Five Texas colleges and universities are among niche.com's annual list of the Top 100 Party Schools in the US. Southern Methodist University was the highest-ranked Texas college at 14th, followed by the University of Texas-Austin at number 15. Texas State (58), Texas Tech (65), and Houston's Texas Southern University (67) also made the list.
Surveyors based their rankings on student surveys (70%), access to bars (10%) and restaurants (5%), Greek life (7.5%), and athletics (7.5%).
Tulane University in New Orleans was number one.
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