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^^your top college neighborhoods in America.
1. Back Bay Fens
2. University City/Penn/Drexel
3. Harvard Square 4. Columbia/Upper West Side, Manhattan
Honorable mention; none.
NYU is in a way better neighborhood than Columbia. The Upper West Side is rich and prestigious, but boring. Greenwich Village is far livelier, and is surrounded by better neighborhoods.
Philadelphia CSA:
#1-University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia MSA)
#2-Drexel University (Philadelphia MSA)
17 of the Biggest 21 Cities in the US have AT LEAST 1 University Within the Top 100. Those who don't have any are: Orlando, Phoenix, Portland and Tampa
The Philadelphia CSA also includes the University of Delaware, which is ranked 75th nationally, ahead of Drexel.
NYU is in a way better neighborhood than Columbia. The Upper West Side is rich and prestigious, but boring. Greenwich Village is far livelier, and is surrounded by better neighborhoods.
The Philadelphia CSA also includes the University of Delaware, which is ranked 75th nationally, ahead of Drexel.
Villanova entered the National Universities list this year at 50. It is No. 2 in the Philadelphia CSA.
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Villanova entered the National Universities list this year at 50. It is No. 2 in the Philadelphia CSA.
Yes, that information was just released literally today, so that post was accurate at the time.
This year's new list would place UD at 3rd and knock Drexel out of the Top 3 in the Philadelphia MSA (Newark, DE is still within the Philadelphia MSA). And there are two schools that are in the NYC CSA (Princeton, Lehigh University) that are actually closer to Philadelphia, so the region is very well served.
Who knows , maybe next census Mercer county may be in the Philadelphia CSA . A lot of central Jersey Pharma has pared back it's employment roles since 2000 census and the expanding Buck's research Bio med companies . I lived in Mercer county years ago and my daughter lives in Princeton and both of us think of Mercer being part of Philly area .
^^your top college neighborhoods in America.
1. Back Bay Fens
2. University City/Penn/Drexel
3. Harvard Square
4. Columbia/Upper West Side, Manhattan
Honorable mention; none.
Allston is more of a college neighborhood than Back Bay, by a mile.
Harvard Square is also only kinda a college neighborhood, only because the undergrad houses are all right there. But Harvard is a pretty small school compared to others in Boston. Grad students, who greatly outnumber undergrads, live in Somerville, Allston, Brighton, or Watertown mostly. Allston, on the other hand, is unmistakably very collegey. Obviously, BU probably dominates, but students from all the universities live there too.
Who knows , maybe next census Mercer county may be in the Philadelphia CSA . A lot of central Jersey Pharma has pared back it's employment roles since 2000 census and the expanding Buck's research Bio med companies . I lived in Mercer county years ago and my daughter lives in Princeton and both of us think of Mercer being part of Philly area .
It's so close! When I lived in Philly, I used to go up to see my brother play soccer up that way all the time and I only remember it being a 45 min drive. Mentally, Princeton just felt "closer" to Philadelphia than NY. Meanwhile the Lehigh Valley (and Lehigh University) also seems more connected to Philly than NY to me. But at the end of the day, it's all about commuters.
for metros with more than one division-1 school, which one is more associated with the city.
I think the ones closest to downtown and have the largest student body would because you would be more likely to run into them at a restaurant or at the ball park. I think prestige only helps the popular schools (tourist rarely lookup u.s. news and world report rankings).
I don't think your metric necessarily holds up across the board. Chicagoland has 5 schools in Division I, 4 of which are in the city limits, but the University of Chicago is still the most associated university with city and it's not a Division I school. Northwestern is the second most associated, and its primary undergrad campus is located outside of Chicago's city limits up in Evanston.
In terms of bumping into grads like you're talking about, you're far more likely to run into graduates from Loyola, DePaul, or UIC on a daily basis. Their sports teams all primarily suck though. Chicago really isn't a college sports town when it comes to home teams. It's frankly more so focused on all the other Big 10 grads who moved to Chicago rooting for their alma maters.
Lincoln Park/Depaul would have made honorable mention but for the fact that there's so many 20-30 somethings working and beginning their family life.
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