So where does YOUR school rank? Top 20 US colleges rated according to the attractiveness of their students

  • Yale comes out top, with pupils 8.9 per cent more attractive than average
  • Vanderbilt is second, with Brown and Duke tied for the bronze medal
  • CalTech, whose students are 75 per cent male, takes last on the list
  • Ranked first nationally, MIT slumps to 19th place when voted on looks 

When it comes to choosing a college to study at, academic prowess, top quality research and employment prospects are usually at the forefront of prospective students' minds.

But for those looking for something more than just a good degree out of their time at university, a dating site has now ranked top U.S. colleges by the attractiveness of their pupils.

Topping the list is Yale, which according to the results of a survey has students that are 8.9 per cent more attractive than average, who also happen to enjoy overactive sex drives.

Yale students were voted as the most attractive, with pupils being 8.9 per cent sexier than the US average, according to a survey by dating site OKCupid

Yale students were voted as the most attractive, with pupils being 8.9 per cent sexier than the US average, according to a survey by dating site OKCupid

 Vanderbilt students were the second most attractive according to data gathered from OkCupid profiles and ahnded over in an online survey

 Vanderbilt students were the second most attractive according to data gathered from OkCupid profiles and ahnded over in an online survey

The list was put together by OkCupid using a mixture of survey data and profile information collected from the top 20 list of colleges as ranked by the U.S. News & World Report.

TOP US COLLEGES RANKED ACCORDING TO ATTRACTIVENESS 

  1. Yale
  2. Vanderbilt University
  3. Brown University
  4. Duke University
  5. Washington University in St. Louis
  6. University of Notre Dame
  7. Johns Hopkins University
  8. Cornell University
  9. Columbia University
  10. Dartmouth College
  11. Northwestern University
  12. Rice University
  13. Stanford
  14. University of Pennsylvania
  15. Princeton
  16. University of California, Berkeley
  17. Harvard
  18. University of Chicago
  19. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  20. California Institute of Technology 

Vanderbilt takes the number two spot in the table, as their students are eight per cent more attractive than the average, the website claims. 

In joint third place is Brown, where students are not just more attractive, but also more sexually active and party-going than the average.

Almost three quarters of Brown students said they would sleep with someone on the first date, while 91 per cent drink and roughly 60 per cent smoke marijuana.

Given those statistics is perhaps not surprising to find that Brown was also the most Liberal school, with 70 per cent of students identifying with the ideology.

Duke University shares bronze position with Brown, whose pupils are not just attractive, but sex-mad as well - more than half said they would like to have sex with their partners every day.

Washington University St Louis rounds out the top five where students can be expected to be smooth talkers, as they have the most advanced reading level on their profiles.

A slightly-amusing 69 per cent of pupils also claim to have higher than average self confidence, making the college an all-round charming proposal.

At the other end of the table, CalTech was voted the least attractive school, with one unfortunate pupil identifying themselves as a virgin, while the rest skipped the question.

Brown, where three quarters of students said they would sleep with someone on the first date, tied in the rankings with Duke for third place

Brown, where three quarters of students said they would sleep with someone on the first date, tied in the rankings with Duke for third place

That is perhaps explained by the fact that, in an intake of just 900 or so, more than three quarters of the students are male.

While MIT took the top spot in national rankings, it came second from bottom in attractiveness, studying harder and partying less than the national average.

Ironically, given their academic prowess, MIT students also had one of the lowest reading levels on their profiles and messages, though they also got a lot of replies. 

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