<p>which states do you guys think have the best quality of colleges/universities per population?</p>
<p>of course massachusetts's population of 6,593,587, with harvard, mit, tufts, bc, bu, williams, amherst, brandeis, wellesley etc leaving one elite college/university per every 732,620 people-not too shabby</p>
<p>VA? CA? PA?</p>
<p>Virginia right now probably has the best public college system (from top to bottom) in the country (with California’s financial problems)</p>
<p>How about Minnesota?</p>
<p>About 5.2 million people.</p>
<p>Schools:
University of Minnesota, Carleton, Macalester, Gustavus Adolphus, St. Olaf, Augsburg, Concordia - that comes to one school for 742,000 people. Only a little more than MA.</p>
<p>Maine - Bowdoin, Colby, Bates. 1: 440,000.</p>
<p>Augsburg? C’mon now HDAC. Wisconsin may as well brag about UW-Stout.</p>
<p>I think it has to be North Carolina. 9 Million people, with: UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, Wake, Davidson, along with a handful of other pretty good Private colleges.</p>
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I agree - specific to public schools only, IMO Virginia has the best quality schools after weighing in all factors (education, prestige, recognition, opportunities, cost, etc.). There’s a school here for everyone, from VT’s outstanding engineering program to UVa’s business (& its overall undergrad period, actually), from W&M’s excellent LAC-like school to JMU’s #1 ranked CS program in the nation (at least last time I checked).</p>