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MIT top US university for study, Brown 'happiest'

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Dina Rudick/Globe Staff/2008

University Hall on the campus of Harvard University, which led all other schools in the "Best Library" category.

By David Beard, Globe Staff

Brown University has the happiest students in the United States, MIT the most studious, and Bowdoin the best fed, according to Princeton Review Inc.

The rankings come from the Framingham company's annual survey of 122,000 students for its book, "The Best 373 Colleges,'' which comes out tomorrow.

Princeton Review also lauded Northeastern University and Emerson College, with Northeastern coming in tops for the quality of its career services program and Emerson the nation's No. 1 most LGBT-friendly school, a distinction the college also obtained in 2008.

However, New England colleges and universities were shut out in the Top 20 of the splashiest category, top party school, a distinction that went to the University of Georgia. The closest such schools to Boston were No. 3 Penn State (No. 1 in 2009) and No. 19 University of Maryland.

The most sober campus, for the 13th year running, went to Brigham Young University in Utah.

But what of Harvard? Not to worry, Crimson-wearers. The university emerged to lead one of the 62 categories -- best library.