Wednesday, August 24th, 2005 at 11:27 am | In Wisconsin |

According to the U.S. News and World Report college rankings, Wisconsin ranks #1 in beer drinking and partying.

Here’s the story.

UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley dismissed the report as “junk science that results in a day of national media coverage.”

The chairman of the campus student government, though, said many students would take pride in the ranking considering the university’s other reputation as a top academic institution.

U.S. News and World Report ranked UW-Madison No. 34 among national universities in its annual survey last week.

“It just shows that we work hard but we play hard also,” said Eric Varney, chair of the Associated Students of Madison.

The UW’s response to the survey

Chancellor Wiley may be right in describing the study as “junk science”, but he should also remember that it also attracts those East Coast kids paying their hefty out-of-state tuition.

Thanks to, interestingly enough, Rocketboom.