The Top 20 Stoner-Friendly Colleges (2020-2021)

Every August, The Princeton Review releases its survey of the Best 382 Colleges in America. Among the many categories is what they call “Reefer Madness” schools, which essentially means campuses with a strong affinity for marijuana. Northeast schools dominate the 2020 list, with 14 schools and Skidmore College returning to the top for the first time since 2014.

Due to students not being on campuses in 2020 during the first wave of Covid-19, The Princeton Review did not include a Reefer Madness list in their 2021 survey. This list is now for 2020 and 2021.

Skidmore College is the No. 1 stoner college for the first time since 2014.

Top 20 "Reefer Madness" Colleges for 2020/2021

Ranking (Last Year)   College         Location

1 (5)  Skidmore College              Saratoga Springs, NY

2 (2)  Pitzer College                    Claremont, CA

3 (4)  Wesleyan University          Middletown, CT

4 (6)  Reed College                     Portland, OR

5 (3)  University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 

6 (7)  University of Maine            Orono, ME

7 (1)  University of Vermont         Burlington, VT

8 (11) Warren Wilson College      Asheville, NC

9 (12) Sarah Lawrence College   Bronxville, NY

10 (13) SUNY Purchase              Purchase, NY

11 (-)  Emerson College              Boston, MA 

12 (-)  Eckerd College                 St. Petersburg, FL 

13 (-)  Goucher College              Baltimore, MD

14 (10) UC Santa Barbara          Santa Barbara, CA

15 (19) Syracuse University        Syracuse, NY

16 (17) Ithaca College                 Ithaca, NY

17 (-)  Clark University                Worcester, MA

18 (10) Colby College                 Waterloo, ME 

19 (-)  St. Lawrence University   Canton, NY 

20 (20) Hamilton College            Clinton, NY

 

Off the List from 2019

8 (3) Bard College                      Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

9 (-) Marlboro College                Marlboro, VT

14 (16) Champlain College        Burlington, VT

15 (19) Colorado College           Colorado Springs, CO

16 (5)  University of Colorado     Boulder, CO

18 (10) University of Wisconsin  Madison, WI

 

Previous Top Colleges

2019 University of Vermont         Burlington, VT

2018  University of Vermont        Burlington, VT 

2017  University of Vermont        Burlington, VT 

2016  Ithaca College                    Ithaca, NY 

2015  Ithaca College                    Ithaca, NY 

2014  Skidmore College              Saratoga Springs, NY

2013  Skidmore College              Saratoga Springs, NY

 

States with the Most Schools on the 2020 List

New York - 7 

Vermont - 2 

Maine - 2 

California - 2  

Massachusetts - 2 

 

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Steve Bloom

Steve Bloom

Publisher of CelebStoner.com, former editor of High Times and Freedom Leaf and co-author of Pot Culture and Reefer Movie Madness.