Ellen Friedrichs of gURL Sex-Ed Blog points to a nice convergence between corporate self-interest and public health:

When I was in grad school, I was pretty amazed by how many sexual health services were available to students. We had peer counselors, a health center that freely gave out condoms, did on-site HIV testing and offered workshops covering everything from breast health to how to have an orgasm.

It was a far cry from my undergrad experience, where if there were any sexual health services I sure didn’t know about them.

Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who noticed the huge disparity in sexual health at different schools. The makers of Trojan condoms also identified this issue and, in light of what they call a “sexual health crisis,” decided to survey 140 schools and rank them on their sexual health.

She said it here.

Yeah, Trojan has involved itself in ranking schools by sex-health services because they have a direct interest in selling more condoms. But then every year U.S. New and World Reports ranks colleges because they have a direct interest in selling… oh wait! More magazines. Which might explain why Trojan’s list is actually helpful while U.S. News’s list, um, isn’t.

Anyway, the top ten places to go to school and stay healthy would be…

1. Stanford University
2. Columbia University
3. Cornell University
4. University of Iowa
5. University of Denver
6. University of Connecticut
7. West Virginia University
8. University of South Carolina-Columbia
9. University of Georgia
10. University of Wyoming

While the worst would be…

130. Marquette University
131. Utah Valley State College
132. Brigham Young University
133. University of Toledo
134. Baylor University
135. Louisiana Tech University
136. University of Notre Dame
137. Providence College
138. St. John’s University-New York
139. DePaul University

Hmm… looks like you can go to Stanford for an education and sexual health, or BYU for… basketball, I guess.