By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. ~Benjamin Franklin
A new study in the Journal of American College Health finds that students in co-ed housing are two and a half times more likely to binge drink each week than students in single sex housing.
More than 500 students from five college campuses participated in the study.
Forty two percent of students in co-ed housing reported binge drinking on a weekly basis. Eighteen percent of students in gender-specific housing reported binge drinking once a week.
“In a time when college administrators and counselors pay a lot of attention to alcohol-related problems on their campuses, this is a call to more fully examine the influence of housing environment on student behavior,” said study co-author Jason Carroll.