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I definately believe that Georgia Tech is defacto in Atlanta. Followed by Emory.
There would be arguments by some in the city for Morehouse and Spelman. Both are beloved here.
i mite be exposing my ignorance but having visited atlanta, i never even heard of emory before this thread.
i remember walking past georgia state university somewhere near downtown.
the university that is most connected to a metro:
number of students and faculty that rent apartments.
busiest teaching hospital.
most subway/bus stops.
largest membership of affiliated health plan.
people pass thru the campus most often.
most often seen on tv/movies (especially not during a game).
most often seen wearing a shirt or jacket.
concert venue.
most faculty, students, alums you run into out-and-about.
radio station.
particularly for bos-wash.
One of the things I note about the five major Northeast metropolises is that all of them have at least one elite university and at least one University for Everyman. The latter of these is a school that was founded specifically so that working people could attend it and get a decent education that fit their (schedule|budget).
Boston, natch, has more than one of each. Elite: Harvard and MIT. Everyman: Northeastern, and kinda-sorta Boston University.
New York - Elite: Columbia, with NYU an honorable mention. Everyman: City University of New York.
Philadelphia - Elite: Penn. Everyman: Temple.
Baltimore - Elite: Johns Hopkins. Everyman: UM-Baltimore County. U of Baltimore doesn't quite fit. Bonus: Morgan State, a large HBCU within the city limits.
Washington - Elite: Georgetown. Everyman: UDC. (GWU and American University are several notches above that plane.)
But using your criteria, the school in Philadelphia that checks off the most of those boxes is Penn. Temple's teaching hospital is busy, and its location gives Temple a total of four subway stops serving parts of the campus (Cecil B. Moore, Susquehanna-Dauphin, Allegheny, Erie), but Penn's is even busier and more prestigious, and Temple doesn't have the health system Penn has. Penn's campus-adjacent neighborhood is more closely tied to the university than Temple's is as well: sheesh, the residents insisted the university's name go on the neighborhood grade school it built and supports along with the School District of Philadelphia.
But: The Liacouras Center has no equivalent at Penn, you see more people hereabouts sporting Temple gear than Penn gear, you're more likely to run into a Temple grad out and about than a Penn grad (especially once you're in the outlying neighborhoods), and the two university radio stations are both widely listened to: WXPN pioneered an entire format that many other public radio stations have adopted, while Temple's WRTI is the only place on the local radio dial where you can hear classical and jazz music.
I'm not sure whether more people pass through Penn's campus than Temple's. Did you mean non-students? I don't think either of the two campuses has had many starring roles on TV or in movies. But Temple does - make that did - have Bill Cosby as its most famous alumnus, and that gave the school wide national exposure.
So maybe it's a wash here, or even a slight edge in Temple's favor.
the university that is most connected to a metro:
number of students and faculty that rent apartments.
busiest teaching hospital.
most subway/bus stops.
largest membership of affiliated health plan.
people pass thru the campus most often.
most often seen on tv/movies (especially not during a game).
most often seen wearing a shirt or jacket.
concert venue.
most faculty, students, alums you run into out-and-about.
radio station.
In Boston, Northeastern was an unselective school 50 years ago. Not now. “Everyman” needs top high school grades and a strong SAT score to get admitted. 1450. Not quite at the level of Harvard or MIT but it takes near-Ivy credentials. The unselective school is UMass-Boston. A fairly pedestrian 1130 average SAT score.
and at least one University for Everyman. The latter of these is a school that was founded specifically so that working people could attend it and get a decent education that fit their (schedule|budget).
Boston, natch, has more than one of each. Elite: Harvard and MIT. Everyman: Northeastern,
.
Hahahahaha! Oh man. Maybe 30 years ago, but in 2020 this is not a school that markets itself to the “Everyman”.
*MIT feels explicitly Cambridge and worldly...idk. Doesn’t seem to associate with the city of Boston as much as Harvard. D3 athletics also kill the pride notion
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