Note: This post was updated with comments from Dennis Martell, health education services coordinator at MSU's Olin Student Health Center.

Michigan State University continues to shed its image as one of the top party schools in the nation.

The Princeton Review, which surveys more than 100,000 students before releasing its annual college rankings, left the East Lansing university off its annual party-school list for the second consecutive year.

West Virginia University in Morgantown, meanwhile, topped the list, much to the chagrin of school officials, who quickly issued a statement highlighting campus academics and questioning the credibility of the rankings.

Michigan State last made the list in 2010 but quietly has dropped in the rankings as memories of the late 90s and early 00s -- complete with student riots and couch burnings -- fade.

The university has earned praise for its "social norms" program, which was launched in 2001 to educate students about actual drinking behavior on campus. The campaign promotes survey data to show students that most of their peers do not drink to excess, indirectly suggesting that they do not have to do so to fit in.

Dennis Martell, health education services coordinator at the Olin Student Health Center, said he was not surprised that MSU has fallen off the party-school list.

"We've seen the perception start to change, and behind that, behavior has started to change," he said, referring to the "social norms" program, which received a model grant from the U.S. Department of Education after demonstrating early success.

"Bottom line, what we're trying to do is change the culture of drinking on campus."

Central and Western Michigan, known locally for their robust party scenes, also were left off the list, which is based on student survey answers indicating high levels of drug or alcohol use, popularity of fraternities or sororities and a low number of daily study hours.

Despite Sparty's absence, the Big Ten was well-represented, as Iowa (2), Illinois (4), Penn State (11) and Wisconsin (13) all placed in the top 20.

While no Michigan colleges made the party-school list, the state was well-represented on the other end of the spectrum. Calvin College ranked 10th on the "stone-cold sober" list and Hillsdale College topped the "Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution" list of schools with a decidedly conservative culture.

Check out the rankings below and visit The Princeton Review website for more information.

PARTY SCHOOLS

1. West Virginia University, Morgantown

2. University of Iowa, Iowa City

3. Ohio University, Athens

4. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

5. University of Georgia, Athens

6. University of Florida, Gainesville

7. University of California-Santa Barbara

8. Florida State University, Tallahassee

9. Miami University of Ohio, Oxford

10. Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.

11. Penn State University, University Park, Pa.

12. DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.

13. University of Wisconsin-Madison

14. University of Mississippi

15. University of Texas-Austin

16. University of Maryland, College Park

17. University of South Carolina, Columbia

18. James Madison University, Harrisonburg Va.

19. University of Maine, Orono

20. University of Tennessee, Knoxville

STONE-COLD SOBER SCHOOLS

1. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

2. Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.

3. U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.

4. U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn.

5. Grove City College, Grove City, Pa.

6. U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.

7. City University of New York-Brooklyn College

8. Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga.

9. Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

10. Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich.

11. City University of New York-City College

12. City University of New York-Queens-Hunter College, Flushing, N.Y.

13. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, Mass.

14. Agnes Scott College, Atlanta-Decatur, Ga.

15. Simmons College, Boston

16. U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo.

17. Pepperdine University, Malibu, Calif.

18. Becker College, Worcester, Mass.

19. Cooper Union for the Advancement of New York

20. California State University-Stanislaus, Turlock, Calif.