Top 5 Educational Capitals of the Nation (largest, compared, size, south)

[Duderino]

Originally Posted by PDX_LAX

1. Boston
2. New York
3. Bay area
4. Los Angeles
5. Washington DC/Chicago

I don't really see how people are putting L.A. any lower than 4th.....Cal Tech, UCLA, USC, UC Irvine (depending on definition), Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, and an impressive array of specialty and liberal arts schools.

How do Chicago, Atlanta, or Philadelphia beat that???

I will acknowledge that LA has a good amount of large universities, but as far as universities, specialty and liberal arts colleges per capita, Philadelphia absolutely has an edge:

List of notable Philadelphia-area schools (among others):

University of Pennsylvania
Drexel University
Villanova University
Temple University
St. Joseph's University
Arcadia University
Cheyney University (oldest HBCU in the country)
Haverford College
Bryn Mawr College
Swarthmore College
Ursinus College
Curtis Institute
Pennsylvania College of Optometry
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
University of the Arts
University of the Sciences

[qc dreamin]

I would say Raleigh as well. If you included Durham and Chapel hill into Raleighs CSA I believe the city could hold its own against any other city on the list.

[Blkspice23]

Atlanta has alot of univeristy for continueing your education
Atlanta has alot of colleges with 1 in midtown 1 downtown and 3 west of downtown.. There are 170,000 students enrolled getting there education
HBCU
Morehouse
Spelman
Clark Atlanta

notable

Ga State
Emory
Ga Tech

Fashion schools

AIU
S.C.A.D
Art Institute

Some others

Univeristy of West Ga
Oglethorpe univeristy
Agnes Scott. ( all girl college)

[tmac9wr]

Originally Posted by EndersDrift

Im amazed some people are putting anything ahead of Boston. It has Harvard and MIT. Those two alone would dominate this thread especially when the original topic was to determine not only on prestige but on student enrollment and endowments. The combined force of all the schools in Boston/Cambridge easily wins. Harvard alone can beat most METROS in terms of prestige and endowment.

Yea I'm just kind of looking at people trying to make cases for their city to be mentioned with Boston and giggling. Whatever makes them happy

Boston, Cambridge, and some inner-burbs

[DANNYY]

Originally Posted by tmac9wr

Yea I'm just kind of looking at people trying to make cases for their city to be mentioned with Boston and giggling. Whatever makes them happy

Boston, Cambridge, and some inner-burbs

I've never heard of Curry College before, but it just gave me an idea of the venue for lunch today!

That was one heck of a good win for Boston over Cleveland. They're just doing good everywhere these days, forums, sports, etc etc

[EndersDrift]

From a Design perspective that is a fantastic map you found.

[tmac9wr]

Thanks, I found it on Wikipedia...I think that map only encompasses 90 square miles.

[kidphilly]

Originally Posted by tmac9wr

Thanks, I found it on Wikipedia...I think that map only encompasses 90 square miles.

Very cool map

[Lifeshadower]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

I think talking about the distance between Cal and Stanford is a moot point.

They are both definitely in the Bay Area.

Yeah, I mean...Grad Students from Berkeley and Stanford get to use each other's libraries. I sometime see Stanford Grad Students in Berkeley's main stacks doing research (and in the process, asking me where certain books are located despite being next to the directory ). It was kind of weird to see, but it was allowed.

For my senior thesis, I had to make the trip to Stanford to use the Hoover Institute for some primary source documents that I needed. It wasn't a problem getting there (except there was traffic on the Dumbarton Bridge, but that's another story).

If someone doesn't want to include Berkeley and Stanford as part of the same metro area, that's fine. People at Berkeley and Stanford don't see it that way. Most people don't see it that way, as can be seen on this poll. If I end up at Stanford for Grad School, I'll probably live with my aunt in that far away metro of Fremont, CA

[PDX_LAX]

Originally Posted by Duderino

I will acknowledge that LA has a good amount of large universities, but as far as universities, specialty and liberal arts colleges per capita, Philadelphia absolutely has an edge:

List of notable Philadelphia-area schools (among others):

University of Pennsylvania
Drexel University
Villanova University
Temple University
St. Joseph's University
Arcadia University
Cheyney University (oldest HBCU in the country)
Haverford College
Bryn Mawr College
Swarthmore College
Ursinus College
Curtis Institute
Pennsylvania College of Optometry
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
University of the Arts
University of the Sciences

Why does per capita matter? If we were organizing our lists on a per capita basis, then small college towns would be winning.

Dartmouth is in Hanover, New Hampshire (pop. 10,000), so if Boston (pop. 620,000) were to have as many reputable universities per capita as Hanover it would need to have 62 Dartmouth-level universities within its city limits.