By Associated Press - Saturday, August 10, 2019

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A new ranking credits Auburn University with having the nation’s happiest college students, while the University of Alabama is No. 2 at partying.

The Princeton Review ranks universities in a number of categories each year, and Auburn comes in No. 1 this year in terms of having a happy student body. Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, is ranked second behind Auburn.

The rankings list Alabama as the nation’s second-best party school behind Syracuse University in New York.



The Princeton Review is a college admission services company. Its rankings are determined by student surveys on their experiences at 385 universities nationwide.

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