The 40 Most Musical Universities in the U.S.

College is a time for getting your act together, both academically and socially.

And the soundtrack to your college experience is just as important as whatever it is you're actually doing, whether it's finishing your paper at 7 a.m. or sidestepping puddles of vomit at the nearest frat party.

Spotify combed through listener data from its student deal program to compare how students from different universities around the country listen to music. Among their findings, they found that listening at Cornell University spikes at 6 a.m. and 7 a.m., students at the University of Alabama listen to country music at twice the average rate, while University of Washington students are the biggest fans of long, instrumental music.

Click through the links below to see which tunes set these 40 universities apart from one another.

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11. Michigan State University

12. New York University

13. Northeastern University

14. Ohio State University

15. Pennsylvania State University

16. Purdue University

17. Texas A&M Unviersity

18. Texas Tech University

19. University of Alabama

20. University of Arizona

21. University of Arkansas Fayetteville

22. University of California Berkeley

23. University of California Los Angeles

24. University of Central Florida

25. University of Colorado Boulder

26. University of Florida

27. University of Georgia

28. University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

29. University of Michigan Ann Arbor

30. University of Minnesota Twin Cities

31. University of Missouri Columbia

32. University of North Texas

33. University of Oklahoma

34. University of Pennsylvania

35. University of Southern California

36. University of Texas Austin

37. University of Virginia

38. University of Washington

39. University of Wisconsin Madison

40. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University