2015 frosh week concert at St. Francis Xavier University, the top party school (Devon Chisholm)
Maclean’s surveyed more than 10,000 students at 100 universities across Canada in the late summer and early fall of 2015 on how many hours a week they spent partying. We calculated an average for each school, rounded to the nearest thousandth, using the number of hours per week divided by the number of respondents from each school. Responses ranged from zero to — wait for it — over 40 hours per week! A minimum of 50 responses per school was required for inclusion. For a photo gallery of the top 20 click here.
To read a first-person account of what a wild weekend is like at St. FX, Canada’s top party school, click here. If you want to read about a weekend at U of T, where students report they party the least, check out this story.
Think your school is the real party powerhouse? Send us your party stories. Submissions should be under 300 words and emailed to letters@macleans.ca.
| Rank | University | Average number of hours spent partying per week |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Francis Xavier | 7.250 |
| 2 | Bishop's | 5.760 |
| 3 | Sherbrooke | 5.697 |
| 4 | UQAM | 5.207 |
| 5 | Nipissing | 5.034 |
| 6 | Montréal | 4.891 |
| 7 | Queen's | 4.807 |
| 8 | Mount Allison | 4.659 |
| 9 | Acadia | 4.604 |
| 10 | Wilfrid Laurier | 4.514 |
| 11 | Guelph | 4.504 |
| 12 | Western | 4.273 |
| 13 | Concordia | 4.268 |
| 14 | Laval | 4.145 |
| 15 | UOIT | 4.119 |
| 16 | Dalhousie | 4.105 |
| 17 | McGill | 3.815 |
| 18 | Cape Breton | 3.779 |
| 19 | New Brunswick | 3.770 |
| 20 | Brock | 3.762 |
| 21 | Memorial | 3.647 |
| 22 | McMaster | 3.406 |
| 23 | Moncton | 3.252 |
| 24 | Lakehead | 3.243 |
| 25 | Victoria | 3.221 |
| 26 | Trent | 3.194 |
| 27 | Saint Mary's | 3.158 |
| 28 | Ottawa | 3.155 |
| 29 | Waterloo | 3.147 |
| 30 | Carleton | 3.041 |
| 31 | Winnipeg | 3.010 |
| 32 | Saskatchewan | 2.959 |
| 33 | MacEwan | 2.896 |
| 34 | Regina | 2.882 |
| 35 | Capilano | 2.859 |
| 36 | St. Thomas | 2.846 |
| 37 | Simon Fraser | 2.789 |
| 38 | Lethbridge | 2.737 |
| 39 | Laurentian | 2.720 |
| *40 | UBC | 2.678 |
| *40 | Ryerson | 2.678 |
| 42 | Windsor | 2.631 |
| 43 | MSVU | 2.624 |
| 44 | Alberta | 2.598 |
| 45 | Kwantlen | 2.588 |
| 46 | Calgary | 2.515 |
| 47 | Mount Royal | 2.476 |
| 48 | UNBC | 2.404 |
| 49 | Manitoba | 2.377 |
| 50 | UPEI | 2.333 |
| 51 | Thompson Rivers | 2.320 |
| 52 | Brandon | 2.200 |
| 53 | York | 2.100 |
| 54 | Toronto | 2.042 |
*Indicates a tie.
