What is the biggest Ivy League party school?
Andrew Mclaughlin
Updated on January 17, 2026
The University of Pennsylvania is the top party school in the country, according to a new ranking released by Playboy Magazine. The Ivy League school tops Playboy's ninth annual list of party schools, its first appearance in the ranking.
What Ivy League school is the biggest party school?
One label Penn has latched onto is “the social ivy.” Any student—even an official tour guide—will tell you the campus has a “work hard, play hard” mentality, and in September, Playboy conferred on Penn a surprising new title: Number One Party School in America.Which Ivy is the best party school?
Niche rankings on party scene
- 1st UPenn: 3.9.
- 2nd Yale: 3.7.
- 3rd Columbia: 3.6.
- 4th Brown: 3.5.
- 4th Dartmouth: 3.5.
- 6th Cornell: 3.4.
- 6th Harvard: 3.4.
- 6th Princeton: 3.4.
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