America's Douchiest Colleges, Revealed!

No doubt you've heard the platitudes about how college is the best time of your life. But you know what? It can also be the douchiest four years you’ll ever have.

Men’s magazine GQ released its list of the nation’s douchiest colleges on Wednesday, and upstate New York’s Cornell takes the top spot, thanks to what GQ says is a giant chip on its shoulder about being the somewhat invisible member of the Ivy League.

Some of the top U.S. private schools make the list, including MIT, Yale, and Stanford. Public universities like Penn State and the University of Florida are there too. And even religious-affiliated institutions like Brigham Young and Pepperdine aren't spared.

Over at Business Insider, one of the interns defends his alma mater and catches some flak for what can only be described as a douchy response. "There are a bunch of individual douches at Cornell, but the nature school itself—its desire to be a place where 'any person can find instruction in any study'—represents the antithesis of the douche," writes Tony Manfred.

As both of Portfolio.com’s interns graduated from Columbia, we'd make the case that New York University probably should have made the list in the “Daddy pays the rent on my East Village apartment so I can afford to dress like I’m out of Gossip Girl” conference. But that's just us, and the effects of our non-douchie education.

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