<p>I agree with Chapel Hill. It’s amazing!! Franklin Street <3</p>
<p>Northfield, MN if you’re more of the LAC type.</p>
<p>Boulder Colorado! Univeristy of CO best college town right there</p>
<p>^^^^Yeah right.</p>
<p>I agree with Boston^^^
There are so many great colleges right in/around the city (BC, Northeastern, BU, Harvard, etc…). Boston is definitely really exciting and proud of its schools!!</p>
<p>I definitely second (or third?) Ann Arbor!</p>
<p>Boulder Colorado! Univeristy of CO best college town right there </p>
<p>Love Boulder too!</p>
<p>Love those old LA pictures…especially the elaborate store signage. Definitely LA’s golden years. But, I wouldn’t say Westwood is a college town…just a part of bigger LA. And not very pedestrian friendly (i.e. six lane streets).</p>
<p>Boston is probably the biggest and best college town. 20% of boston’s residents are affiliated with a college, and I believe it has the most colleges of any major city. If you don’t count major cities, Amherst is a good bet along with Bloomington</p>
<p>IMHO, a college town must revolve around (dare I say it?) a COLLEGE to be considered as such. What college/colleges in Boston does the city revolve around? The answer is, of course, none. Therefore, all MAJOR cities are NOT COLLEGE TOWNS.</p>
<p>ridiculous. of course the athens of america is a college town. BC BU harvard MIT tufts are all in close proximity to each other</p>
<p>ann arbor, michigan for sure!</p>
<p>Boston…yeah right. LA of course!</p>
<p>“ridiculous. of course the athens of america is a college town. BC BU harvard MIT tufts are all in close proximity to each other”</p>
<p>Ridiculous? You don’t even know that Harvard, MIT, and Tufts aren’t in Boston. Now if you said Cambridge or Medford/Sommerville were college towns, then at least you would be on the right track.</p>
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Top 5 College Towns
University of Iowa - Iowa City
University of Wisconsin- Madison
University of Texas- Austin ( parts)
University of Colorado- Boulder
Indiana University- Bloomington</p>
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<p>Others
University of California- Santa Barabra
Pennslyvania State University- State College
Ohio State University - Columbus ( parts)
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign
Cornell University- Ithaca</p>
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<p>which colleges have nice college towns, or even just a few exciting streets nearby, with shops and restaurants and stuff?</p>
<p>(relatively selective schools, please) </p>
<p>“Top 5 College Towns
University of Iowa - Iowa City
University of Wisconsin- Madison
University of Texas- Austin ( parts)
University of Colorado- Boulder
Indiana University- Bloomington”</p>
<p>Which of the 5 listed above is out of place?</p>
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None on the list are out of place. To be specific, if your aiming at The University of Iowa as you have in the past the pedestrian mall in Iowa City ( base off my knowledge) tends to be the most vibrant street downtown in the city as OP asked, along with many other locations downtown.</p>
<p>LOL, coolbreeze, what is your opinion on Ann Arbor?</p>
<p>ha yeah i thought i always thought it was kinda stupid when princeton review’s best college towns was basically just major cities. i would def say ann arbor is great. i live not to far from downtown and even though i’m not going to umich, i would like to move there if i ever come back to michigan. lansing/east lansing, home of michigan state, was recently on a list of best towns for young people. i’ve heard bloomington and austin are great too</p>
<p>Austin has always been pretty high up on the list of best college towns and best cities for young adults. Texas has really stood pretty high with the economic downfalls and unemployment rates, etc in the past two years or so. I’m sure that means something to the rankings, because it’s most likely means it is easier to get a job.</p>