The information for Playboy's 1987 list of party schools was compiled in 1986 
from the reports of Playboy staffers who interviewed campus club leaders, dorm
rush chairmen, fraternity presidents and other campus social studs at more than
250 schools nationwide. 

The 1987 list read as follows: 


01.   California State University, Chico
02.   University of Miami, Coral Gables
03.   San Diego State University, San Diego
04.   University of Vermont, Burlington
05.   Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania
06.   University of Connecticut, Storrs
07.   West Virginia University, Morgantown
08.   Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire
09.   Mercer University, Macon, Georgia
10.   University of Virginia, Charlottesville
11.   State University of New York, Cortland
12.   Colorado State University, Fort Collins
13.   Arizona State University, Tempe
14.   University of Nevada, Las Vegas
15.   Boston University, Boston
16.   Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
17.   Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
18.   Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
19.   Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
20.   Central Connecticut State University, New Britain
21.   University of Maryland, College Park
22.   University of Mississippi, Oxford
23.   West Georgia College, Carrollton
24.   University of Texas, Austin
25.   Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
26.   University of Kansas, Lawrence
27.   Kansas State University, Manhattan
28.   Glassboro State College, Glassboro, New Jersey
29.   University of Florida, Gainesville
30.   Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond
31.   University of Iowa, Iowa City
32.   University of Oklahoma, Norman
33.   Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
34.   Ohio University, Athens
35.   University of Massachusetts at Amherst
36.   University of Georgia, Athens
37.   Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
38.   University of Missouri/Rolla
39.   Reed College, Portland, Oregon
40.   Fairhaven College, Bellingham, Washington

Honorable Mentions: Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Colorado at Boulder, Columbia, 
Dartmouth, Georgetown, Iowa State, Kent State, Michigan State, Penn State, 
Purdue, Rhode Island, Rutgers, Tennessee at Knoxville, Trinity College.