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Students party during Palmer Fest this spring. Weather kept the fest tamer than in past years, and arrests were down. A ranking released Monday pushed OU out of the nation's top ten party schools. (FILE PHOTO)

OU falls in party school ranking; drops below Miami

Ohio University fell six spots in the 2014-15 Princeton Review party school rankings to thirteenth. Miami University rose above OU to eleventh.

The rivalry between Miami and Ohio universities heated up Monday, with Miami moving ahead of OU in The Princeton Review's annual party school ranking. 

In the 2014-15 rankings, Miami came in at eleventh place, two spots ahead of OU, at thirteenth. The Bobcats, ranked first in 2011 and third in 2012, fell six spots from their seventh place ranking in 2013. Miami was sixteenth last year.

Since OU switched from quarters to semesters, the university has dropped in the annual party school ranking each year. That has coincided with stronger public admonishment of the party school image from top OU administrators.

The ranking comes after a school year when alcohol-related incidents and parties went viral, including the public sex act on Court Street and YouTube videos of spring's fest season.

Syracuse University, a private institution in New York, came in first this year. 

Penn State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign were other public Midwestern schools in the top ten.
 
OU ranked highly in other areas as well, including sixth for "lots of beer" and twelfth for "lots of hard liquor." The Review don't say how those rankings are determined. 
 
OU was also seventeenth for "most beautiful campus."
 
The Princeton Review party school rankings are part of wider rankings the review does of America's best colleges. OU did not rank among the 379 "Best Colleges" in any academic categories.
 
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