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Yeh, Forbes tends to use some rather bizarre criteria for their "best of" and "worst of" rankings.
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Like I said, Champaign is huge university town through and through. People that graduate from ISU aren't as likely to take their education to Urbana (unless they are transfering schools), as people from Urbana are in coming to Bloomington/Normal for the job market. I would say that if both Bloomington/Normal, and Champaign/Urbana were stricly university towns, then you could safetly say that Champaign is the "smarter" city just because U of I is twice the size of ISU.
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Peoria would actually have to grow to be part of a Peoria/Morton/Bloomingotn.
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Many smart people go to U of I for college but leave when they are done.
Many smart people move to bloomington-normal to work, that is the difference. Bloomington also has Illinois Wesleyan University, a nationally ranked liberal arts college. |
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