What are the top 5 big cities with big universities? (Charlotte: chapel, population)

[Justme2010]

Hi,

Which cities in North Carolina that have big universities in its vicinity?

Thanks.

[superk]

1 North Carolina State University Raleigh
2 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3 East Carolina University Greenville
4 University of North Carolina at Charlotte
5 University of North Carolina at Greensboro

[Francois]

Originally Posted by superk

1 North Carolina State University Raleigh
2 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3 East Carolina University Greenville
4 University of North Carolina at Charlotte
5 University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Although Chapel Hill is not a "big city with a big university". Also, there is Durham which has Duke university.

I'm unclear whether the OP is more interested in "big city with a university" or "city with a big university". In either case, Raleigh, Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, and either Greenville (small city, big university) or Winston-Salem (big city, small university--Wake Forest and others) would be they.

[Justme2010]

@superk, thank you.
@Francois, "city with a big university", interesting point, that's the logic, going after the cities with large universities, however, it's easy to draw humans' attention with "BIG", "BAD", wowing effect like that...
thanks.

[Justme2010]

"Which cities in North Carolina that have big universities in its vicinity?"

ever heard of Twitter?

[NCgirl]

From Wikipedia - 2008 enrollments

1.North Carolina State University in Raleigh -30,130
2.University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill - 28,136
3. East Carolina University in Greenville - 25,990
4. University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Charlotte - 25,500
5. University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Greensboro - 17,177
6. Appalachian State University in Boone 15,871
7. Duke University in Durham - 12,991
8. University of North Carolina at Wilmington in Wilmington - 11,840
9. Western Carolina in Cullowhee - 11,000
10. North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro - 10,322

From city-data, 2009 city populations

1. Charlotte - 709,441
2. Raleigh - 405,791
3. Greensboro -255,061
4. Durham - 229,174
6. Wilmington - 89,621
7 Greenville - 81,747
8. Boone - 14,138
9.Cullowhee - 3,920

[NCgirl]

Just realized I can't count and I left out Chapel Hill, population 53,546.

[Francois]

Originally Posted by NCgirl

Just realized I can't count and I left out Chapel Hill, population 53,546.

You also left out the # "5.", which was perplexing me, since there is one city (GSO) on the top list twice, thus there should only be nine cities listed in the second list. Since it goes to 9 and you added one, I just spent 10 minutes looking like:

[NCgirl]

^That's why I said

Just realized I can't count

[BiggJoe4181]

As an ASU graduate I can tell you that Boone is neither big or a city. It's a small town wrapped around a mid-sized university.