1. UNDERAGE DRINKING
OF COLLEGE STUDENTS
By: Ethan P Duran

2. STATEMENT:
 Question: Why do underage college students drink?
 The reason why I chose this question is because I was wondering how many
college underage students drink.
 I also wanted to know the following questions?
• Why do they drink underage?
• What makes underage college students drink?
• How much and when do they drink?
 The importance of drinking underage of college students is important to
communication and media studies because it can look at the college setting and try
to figure out what it going on to see how they communicate to one another.

3. REVIEW OF THE
LITERATURE
 Research shows that more than 80 percent of college students drink
alcohol…(National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
 From age 13 to 21, the percentage of people who report binge drinking increases
from an estimated 1% to 50%. (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
 Almost half of all the alcohol consumed by students attending four-year colleges is
consumed by underage students.(National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
 Young people may drink to change their image or to fit in when moving to a new
school or town(National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc)
 The holes that my research will find out is that I personally did a survey that people
could relate to.

4. EXPECTATIONS
 What I expect to find in my study are the personal reasons why
college students who are underage drink.
 I think that underage college students drink because they think
that it is cool because one that they are underage and two they think
that they wont get caught.

5. STUDY DESIGN/ METHODS
 How I conducted my study was by using a survey. I found that this method was
the best.
 Here is my survey:
• http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/X37NZJF
 The reason why I used this method was that it is quick and easy to get the
results. I made the survey short so that people would not get overwhelmed.
 How I used this method was that I used a survey site called surveymonkey. I
created the survey that I wanted and I emailed it to people and also I put it up on
Facebook. I got around 17 people who filled out my survey.

6. RESULTS
 When looking at my results for the first time I noted that:
• Most of the people who answered my survey were female
• The average age was about 24
• The questions that people could type in to had really good comments
• “What makes underage drinking happen” The top answer for this
question was “peer pressure.”
 My last question that was about providing alcohol to minors was very
good feedback. The result of this question were that the people who
answered were all about family and close friends when giving alcohol to
minors.

7. RESULTS II
 When looking deeper in the peer pressure question I read the
responses. What I found was that it was very wide open. One person
said the expectations of a college campus. Another response was that
living with people over the age of 21 and they just wanted to try it.
 When I first looked at the results I found that more women took
my survey then men by a huge margin.

8. RESULTS III
 Question 4 that asked about what people think about underage
drinking.
• The total number of people who answered this question so far is 13.
• 53% said that it is ok to drink underage
• 23% said that it is both fine and wrong to drink
 To me that is a good number because it is about half when looking
at the 53%.

9. CONCLUSION/ DISCUSSION
 What I found out is that underage college students are going to continue to
drink. It has happened for many year and will continue to happen.
 The best way to slow it the drinking down is to educate them on how much to
drink so that they don’t end up dead.
 When looking at past finding I noted that universities and colleges have in their
handbook a fact sheet about drinking and how it effects college life
 The larger implications of this study is to be aware of what might happen if a
underage college students drinks to much.

10. REFERENCES
 http://www.edgarsnyder.com/drunk-driving/underage-
drinking/underage-statistics.html
 http://www.ncadd.org/index.php/for-youth/underage-and-
college
 http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/CollegeFactSheet/College
FactSheet.pdf