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View Poll Results: What are the educational capitals?
New York 114 50.22%
Chicago 82 36.12%
DC 90 39.65%
LA 52 22.91%
San Francisco 86 37.89%
Baltimore 8 3.52%
Boston 171 75.33%
Atlanta 37 16.30%
Pittsburgh 17 7.49%
Raleigh-Durham 45 19.82%
Nashville 4 1.76%
Seattle 20 8.81%
Dallas 7 3.08%
Austin 17 7.49%
Philadelphia 64 28.19%
Greensboro-Winston-Salem 7 3.08%
other 18 7.93%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 227. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-03-2010, 09:17 PM
 
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I have heard so may times a city/metro is referred to as an educational capital. Mostly in regards to Boston. Being a Southerner, I know Atlanta is up there and has a sizeable college population. So, the question is what are the top 5 educational capitals of the country. I think this would help in comparisons, and I would like to know for myself for my future (10-15 years from now) career as a professor. The criteria are: large college population, more than 3 colleges, prestige/reputation, endowment, etc.So here are the choices:
Boston
New York
Chicago
Atlanta
Los Angelas
Bay Area
Pittsburgh
Nashville
Raleigh-Durham
Greensboro-Winston-Salem
Dallas
Austin
Seattle
DC
Baltimore
Philadelphia
others, if I'm missing some, please let me know.
Let's see what happens.

Last edited by adavi215; 05-03-2010 at 09:34 PM.. Reason: left out DC, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. Changed San Francisco to the Bay Area
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Old 05-03-2010, 09:18 PM
 
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1. Boston
2. NY
3. Seattle
4. San Francisco
5. Philadelphia
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Old 05-03-2010, 09:21 PM
 
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boston, ny, philly, chicago, sf
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Old 05-03-2010, 09:22 PM
 
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Originally Posted by adavi215 View Post
I have heard so may times a city/metro is referred to as an educational capital. Mostly in regards to Boston. Being a Southerner, I know Atlanta is up there and has a sizeable college population. So, the question is what are the top 5 educational capitals of the country. I think this would help in comparisons, and I would like to know for myself for my future (10-15 years from now) career as a professor. The criteria are: large college population, more than 3 colleges, prestige/reputation, endowment, etc.So here are the choices:
Boston
New York
Chicago
Atlanta
Los Angelas
San Francisco
Pittsburgh
Nashville
Raleigh-Durham
Greensboro-Winston-Salem
Dallas
Austin
Seattle
others, if I'm missing some, please let me know.
Let's see what happens.

Just out of curiousity where is Philly - think it is number 2 or 3 after Boston - large college population (believe around 100K in the city with twice that in the metro) Great schools - Penn has a huge endowment
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Old 05-03-2010, 09:27 PM
 
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Just out of curiousity where is Philly - think it is number 2 or 3 after Boston - large college population (believe around 100K in the city with twice that in the metro) Great schools - Penn has a huge endowment
Charge it to my head and not my heart. I edited it to fix that. I have heard that about Phily as well.
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Old 05-03-2010, 09:28 PM
 
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I pick:
1. Boston
2-5. Chicago, DC, Atlanta, Phily in no particular order.
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Old 05-03-2010, 09:30 PM
 
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1. New York: (Columbia, NYU, Fordham University, Yeshiva University, etc)
2. Boston: (Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Boston University, University of Massachusetts, etc)
3. Chicago: (Northwestern, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, Layola University, etc)
4. Los Angeles: (USC, UCLA, California State University, etc...)
5. The Bay Area: (Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon University Grad School, etc...)

^ Those are metropolitan areas by the way, just in case anyone was wondering. I didn't put them in any particular order.

I left out most of the smaller schools for each of them, all these cities have plenty of schools.

Honorable mentions:

1. Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, Temple University, etc...)
2. Atlanta (Emory University, Georgia Tech University, etc....)
3. DC (Georgetown, George Washington University, etc...)

That's it for my list, I only did the large cities/large metros.

Oh and by the way, Adavi, I like the idea for your thread. Very original, nice one.
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Old 05-03-2010, 09:39 PM
 
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^Om good list

another area to think about is central Jersey with Princeton and Rutgers

Technically in NY Metro though Princeton is much closer to Philly (You can actually drive from Penn to Princeton in about 35 minutes or take the train)
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Old 05-03-2010, 09:41 PM
 
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I'm searching for a list that has college students by enrollment, but I am having a tough time. If anybody can find these numbers, please post.
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Old 05-03-2010, 09:44 PM
 
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1. Boston







Then in any particular order Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
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