<p>I always felt the "their students never stop studying" ranking applied more to places where the culture of the school revolves around work, rather than the workload itself. Columbia, for example, has a notorious workload. I was surprised to find that I and other Columbians work far harder than my friends at Swarthmore, for example. But Columbia students generally attempt to balance work with their social lives more than students at Swarthmore and Chicago, hence the appearance of the latter two on the ranking.</p>