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Sexual Health Report Card

UofA — alisa on September 13, 2007 at 10:55 pm

In the Trojan (the condom makers) Sexual Health Report Card, UofA ranks 31 out of 139 universities in the U.S.

Researchers polled student health centers and reviewed their websites
to assign a grade point average (GPA) for sexual health resources across 11 separate categories:
– Sexual health awareness programs
– Condom & contraception availability
– HIV testing
– Other Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) testing
– Student health center hours of operation
– Drop-in vs. appointment-based service
– Navigability and usability of Web-based sexual health information
– Anonymous advice / newspaper columns
– Lecture outreach programs
– Student peer groups
– Sexual assault programs

Here are the highest and lowest ranked schools:

1. University of Minnesota (GPA 3.91)
2. University of Wyoming (GPA 3.91)
3. University of Washington (GPA 3.73)
4. Rutgers University (GPA 3.68)
5. Purdue University (GPA 3.64)

135. Villanova University (GPA 1.45)
136. University of Arkansas (GPA 1.36)
137. Arkansas State University (GPA 1.14)
138. University of Louisiana (GPA 0.91)
139. Louisiana Tech University (GPA 0.82)

UofA tied USC (among others) with a GPA of 3.18. Some notable schools that UofA beat out are:
– Princeton (3.14)
– Northwestern (3.09)
– Stanford (3.09)
– UC Berkeley (3.09)
– Cornell (2.91)
– UCLA (2.64 but didn’t we all see that one coming?)
– ASU (2.55)
– Georgetown (2.09)
– Brigham Young (1.91 but I guess they don’t need sexual health services anyways)

To see the full list, and read more about the ranking system, go here.

3 Comments »

  1. It’s interesting to see the correlation between health and GPA… so smart people have less sex? Also, how does a school survive with an average GPA of 0.82?

    Comment by Aaron — September 14, 2007 @ 11:00 am
  2. Aaron: I may be wrong, but I think the GPA refers to how you’re school ranks in sexual health programs, not the average student GPA concerning academics.

    Comment by Kai Schaller — September 15, 2007 @ 8:19 pm
  3. Yeah, the “GPA” was based off of Trojan rankings.

    What really surprised me was seeing schools like Georgetown with a less than admirable “GPA”. I guess because most of those kids are rich, they go to private doctors if there are problems, not the free health services offered by the university.

    That doesn’t explain why University of Louisiana and Louisiana Tech University are so bad at providing services though. I tried to find a choropleth map of the prevalence of STDs in the U.S., but I didn’t find one. I imagine that places in the south would have higher STD rates than other places in the U.S., but that is an ill-informed guess.

    Comment by Alisa — September 17, 2007 @ 8:07 pm

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