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My vote for best college town in the country would be Madison, Wisconsin.
A very pretty setting with Lake Mendota -------terrific environment with State Street----good people-----great academic environment at UW-----good football, basketball,and hockey programs--------Nice rolling hills of Wisconsin-------------------Madison has it all going on.
Might want to get back to the drawing board there guys, your formula OBVIOUSLY doesn't work. I don't get what professional opportunity even has to do with it, how many people even end up working where they went to college?
Actually a lot of people. Especially if it is in a specific field or is graduate school.
My wife went to law school in Boston and right now it is basically impossible to get a job in that city (something like 4 graduates for every 1 job, maybe even worse). Maybe that is what knocks a city like Boston down? (Of course it is so hard to get a job there because the quality / quantity of students produced).
Don't really get how SF is number one though, unless they are counting the entire metro area, there are some good schools there but nothing compared to Boston.
My vote for best college town in the country would be Madison, Wisconsin.
A very pretty setting with Lake Mendota -------terrific environment with State Street----good people-----great academic environment at UW-----good football, basketball,and hockey programs--------Nice rolling hills of Wisconsin-------------------Madison has it all going on.
This obviously has nothing to do with college students and has everything to do with bolstering these places' economies. Bravo local Chambers of Commerce! What a coup. No college kid could afford to live SF, NY, Washington or Boston. . Besides what college is IN SF? UC-SF? Ugh forget it. Stanford is way down on the Peninsula. UCSC is way down on the Bay in Central CA. San Jose State? While down in the Valley is hardly a "great" college. UC-Davis? Out in the cow pastures toward Sacramento and hardly a place I would run to. Give me a break.
This obviously has nothing to do with college students and has everything to do with bolstering these places' economies. Bravo local Chambers of Commerce! What a coup. No college kid could afford to live SF, NY, Washington or Boston. . Besides what college is IN SF? UC-SF? Ugh forget it. Stanford is way down on the Peninsula. UCSC is way down on the Bay in Central CA. San Jose State? While down in the Valley is hardly a "great" college. UC-Davis? Out in the cow pastures toward Sacramento and hardly a place I would run to. Give me a break.
I dont agree with SF being number one but it has plenty of colleges in the city limits.
San Diego has a collection of really great universities, plus they are very large. Growing up in CA I would say 75% of my high school graduating class wanted to go to school in SD.
I am well aware of the colleges in San Diego and I don't doubt you on that. I almost went to one. However, with that being said Philadelphia and Chicago have many more colleges and draw many more college students nationally than San Diego does. I am not dissing the SD schools either as they are great, but Chicago and Philly have much more well known and recognized schools than SD.
I am well aware of the colleges in San Diego and I don't doubt you on that. I almost went to one. However, with that being said Philadelphia and Chicago have many more colleges and draw many more college students nationally than San Diego does. I am not dissing the SD schools either as they are great, but Chicago and Philly have much more well known and recognized schools than SD.
That's true, especially of Philly (I think of Philly having more universities than Chicago, but I don't know if that is true)... But a lot of the recognition advantages these schools on the East Coast have are purely name recognition because they are very old schools. For example, Penn is instantly recognized as an upper tier school but UCSD may not be, simply because it is a newer school. I'm not totally sure but I would estimate they are fairly similar in quality level.
The only list that should be of worth is Best College Towns. I love college towns because they are usually the epicenter of the particular town. Colleges in large cities kind of blend in and are a piece to that particular city.
My vote for best college town in the country would be Madison, Wisconsin.
A very pretty setting with Lake Mendota -------terrific environment with State Street----good people-----great academic environment at UW-----good football, basketball,and hockey programs--------Nice rolling hills of Wisconsin-------------------Madison has it all going on.
Raleigh and Durham both make their respective top ten lists (guessing that Durham's includes Chapel Hill). If the metro was combined like it was pre 2003, I suspect it would have ranked even higher as a consolidated metro.
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