And Brigham Young University was the worst, according to the survey of 100 public and private schools in the United States, although the University of Utah was only two spots ahead at No. 98.
The makers of Trojan brand condoms and Sperling's Best Places examined various criteria, including resources about sexual health, the depth of information available on the school's Web site and the availability of condoms on campus, to determine a school's score, which was calculated in the same manner as a student's grade point average, according to a news release.
BYU received F's in every category - information on the school's Web site, availability of condoms, availability of contraception, HIV and sexual transmitted infection screening, sexual assault services, advice columns/Q and A's, and lecture and outreach programs.
The University of Utah's score mirrored BYU's except it received a slightly better grade - D - for lecture and outreach programs.
Yale University received the only perfect score and was found to have excellent resources for students, according to the news release. Yale holds the annual Sex Week at Yale, which promotes open on-campus discussion of sex and relationships, and makes information about sexual health easily accessible online and through the student health center.
"In our research, we put ourselves in the place of a student seeking information about sexual health, and we found it difficult to find this type of information at a range of colleges throughout the country," Bert Sperling of Sperling's Best Places stated in the release. "There is an immense divide between those schools that offer comprehensive, fact-based sexual health resources to students and provide a forum for discussion of related topics, and those where, for a variety of reasons, information is difficult to come by."
BYU criticized the survey, telling the Deseret Morning News that Sperlings never contacted the school but rather gathered information from the school's Web site.
And school spokeswoman Carri Jenkins told the newspaper BYU students, before they enroll, must sign a statement that they will live by BYU's Honor Code, which prohibits extra- and premarital sex.
U. officials told the Deseret Morning News they disputed the findings.
"We probably shouldn't have been No. 1, but there is no way we should be only two ahead of BYU," Jason Gillman, office manager of the U.'s Health Promotion Program, told the newspaper.
Key findings of the survey included:
93 percent of schools surveyed offer some type of STI testing to students with 24 percent offering free testing on campus.
Only 32 percent of schools have a sex advice column online or in the school paper.
With the exception of Oregon State University, which received a grade of B, all schools in the top 10 received an A in the Web site category, which measures ease of access to information about sexual health on the school's Web site.
76 percent of schools surveyed do not provide free condoms to students.
The average score for schools in the top 10 was 3.49, compared with an average of .43 for schools in the bottom 10.
While the top and bottom 10 schools in the survey are regionally diverse, the Northeast does show a slight edge over other regions: 20 percent of schools in the Northeast received a 3.0 score or better; 10.5 percent of schools in the Midwest received a 3.0 score or better; 10.3 percent of schools in the West received a 3.0 score or better; 7.4 percent of schools in the South received a 3.0 or better.
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