<p>Princeton, NJ
West Lafayette, IN</p>
<p>Austin is the state capital and a major high-tech business center. UT is now a minor part of the picture overall. The metro area is around 1,000,000 so it's not a town anymore.</p>
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West Lafayette, IN
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<p>You're joking, right?</p>
<p>Amherst, MA
Cambridge, MA
Chapel Hill, NC</p>
<p>Westwood, CA (UCLA)
Portland, OR (PSU)
La Jolla, CA (UCSD)
Santa Barbara, CA (UCSB)</p>
<p>Austin, Tx
Chapel Hill, NC</p>
<p>Madison, WI
Ithaca, NY</p>
<p>and I kind of liked
St. Louis, MO, but not as much as the first two</p>
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<p>Still, UT is basically single-handedly responsible (for better or for worse!) for making Austin what it is today in terms of the tech industry. The Sematech microelectronics consortium intended to maintain US competitiveness in the semiconductor realm was created in Austin because of UT's presence. The concentration of a number of world-leaders in research in that area at UT was a major driver. The hi-tech industry has obviously exploded in Austin since the 80s. In addition to hi-tech, the film/multi-media industry has also benefitted largely due to UT's presence (witness UT's pioneering film program and associated production company that not even USC or NYU matched at the time), It could be argued Austin would still be a sleepy university, state government and music town without UT.</p>
<p>Oxford MS
Bloomington, IN
Tallahassee, FL</p>