They may not have the highest sticker price, but when we factored in earning potential and average debt, these schools came out on bottom.

Get the most bang for your buck at these schools, where debt and salary statistics show that grads had the best luck shouldering the cost of their degrees.

Party's here: these are the schools where students tend to socialize under the influence, based on alcohol- and drug-related disciplinary actions.

To find the campuses with the steepest learning curves, we started with the nation's top colleges, and then whittled the list down based on student surveys.

We never said higher education was easy, but these are the schools where students report the lightest workloads.

These are the schools that have it all—a picturesque campus, an attractive student body, and consistently bright weather.

Liberals tend to flock to the schools on this list, where campus colors skew blue—even in red states.

Young Republicans can count on these campuses, where right-leaning politics and conservative voters reign supreme.

If you had a do-over, would you pick the same college you did the first time around? Graduates of these schools tend to say yes.

Between academics, social growing pains, and debt, college can be rough. These schools are hotbeds of anxiety.

Greek life can get a bad rap, but these brotherhoods on our list have been singled out for their philanthropy and successful alumni.

For all the attention devoted to the hazing practices and bullying of a few collegiate fraternities, the average Greek frat brother is more active in his community and has a higher G.P.A. than his non-fraternity peers. In order to compare the 75 fraternities that are members of the North-American Interfraternity Conference, we first considered the number of active collegiate chapters for each. We also considered the number of alumni who are currently members of the U.

To find the most devoted sisters, we factored in social-media prominence, philanthropic giving, and more.

There are 26 organizations in the National Panhellenic Conference, with reputations and memberships that vary by campus. To analyze which sororities have the largest national footprint, most devoted sisters, and greatest philanthropic footprint, we compared the 26 Panhellenic Conference sororities based on the number of active collegiate chapters, the number of Twitter followers and Facebook fans (to measure alumni and member interest) and the amount of money the sorority’s non-profit fund donated to 501(c)(3) organizations according the most recent public filing (funds were normalized using a per-chapter ratio).