Top 5 Educational Capitals of the Nation (state, comparison, population, metropolitan)
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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
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
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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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.
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)
Then in any particular order Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
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