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Worst Party School: (Tie) California State University, Chico; San Diego State University

While Chico is the most notorious party college on the planet—69 students were arrested on St. Patrick's Day two years ago—on average, a full 15 percent of them actually manage to graduate in four years. At San Diego State, a paltry 14 percent are able to accomplish this goal. Both schools deserve special recognition for high-level achievement in the field of depravity and general disinterest in scholastic pursuits.

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Illustrious Alumni: Chico lays claim to good-time-guy novelist Raymond Carver (who graduated elsewhere) and bare-knuckled political consultant Ed Rollins, while SDSU graduated disgraced former CIA executive director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo and oft-disrobed former C-movie actress Raquel Welch (right). Too close to call.

Notable Courses: While Chico may have SDSU licked in the category of anecdotal debauchery, the latter offers a class titled Challenges of Leisure ("the study of leisure and its impact on contemporary life ... issues affecting recreation in today's urbanized society"), formerly Recreation 204. And we have to respect that kind of rigor.

School Pride: "I started to worry when you could smell alcohol permeating from my pores," one Chico student told Playboy.com. "You can go to Mexico and get wasted, you can go to the beach and get wasted, or just stay in the city and of course get wasted," writes an anonymous SDSU sophomore on Students Review.

Fun Facts: The forensics team had its 2006 season canceled after members were caught doing coke on school-sponsored trips. Last year, Phi Kappa Tau was suspended for using Chico coeds in hardcore pornographic movies that were filmed in their frat house and then sold on the Internet. The festivities included a game called "pussy ring toss," the objective of which is to hook a ring over a dildo, which is held in a woman's vagina.

Raw Data: The porn movies reportedly earned more than $100,000, though the filmmakers were expelled. Chico State should consider renaming its business school after its most accomplished entrepreneurs.

Tuition: Chico, $3,690 in-state ($13,860 out-of-state); SDSU, $3,176 in-state ($13,346 out-of-state); plus room and board.

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