CP Rankings for the USNWR Top 25 IX: Nightlife

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<p>CC provides information elsewhere that is drawn from College Pr owler. CP rates a number of elements of college life and I thought it might be interesting and fun to compare on various characteristics of colleges ranked in the USWNR Top 25 National Universities and the USNWR Top 25 LACs. </p>

<p>Here are the grades for the Nightlife at colleges ranked in the USNWR Top 25 National Universities and the USNWR Top 25 LACs. </p>

<p>Note: Not all colleges have data available (Caltech, UCB, and UCLA among the national universities and Smith, Bates, Macalester, USMA & USNA among the LACs).</p>

<p>Nightlife , National University</p>

<p>A , Columbia
A , Rice
A- , Harvard
A- , MIT
A- , U Penn
A- , Vanderbilt
A- , Georgetown
B+ , Wash U
B+ , Johns Hopkins
B+ , Brown
B+ , Emory
B+ , Carnegie Mellon
B , Stanford
B , U Chicago
B- , Yale
B- , Notre Dame
C+ , Duke
C+ , Northwestern
C+ , Cornell
C+ , U Virginia
C , Princeton
D , Dartmouth</p>

<p>Nightlife , LAC</p>

<p>A , Claremont McK
B , Amherst
B , Wellesley
B , Grinnell
B , Colgate
B- , Swarthmore
B- , Pomona
B- , Carleton
B- , Hamilton
B- , Bryn Mawr
B- , Colby
C , Davidson
C , Haverford
C , Harvey Mudd
C- , Bowdoin
C- , Wesleyan
C- , W&L
C- , Oberlin
D+ , Middlebury
D+ , Vassar
D , Williams</p>

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<p>LOL
i agree with this list.
what nightlife is there to do at Dartmouth besides get drunk, play some beer games, and go hiking in the woods? lol</p>

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<p>A , Claremont McK
B- , Pomona
C , Harvey Mudd</p>

<p>This is the dumbest list.</p>

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<p>A lot of this is from variety of night life. All colleges have parties, beer pong, etc. But Columbia, Rice, Harvard, MIT, Penn are all in large cities. Vandy has the Nashville music scene</p>

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<p>I don't see, though, why UofC's location in Chicago would still put it below Brown's location in Providence LOL</p>

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<p>I think this should be explained better. this is a rank of social LIFE OUTSIDE of campus. Hanover, NH is pretty boring. But Dartmouth is AWESOME and has an incredibly active social scene. Oppositely Columbia has all of NYC with thousands of bars but the CAMPUS scene is dead.</p>

<p>"Nightlife" should be restated as "number of bars in the town where college is located"</p>

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<p>There are 3 top-tier schools in MAJOR US cities</p>

<p>-Columbia
-U Chicago
-Penn</p>

<p>Of these, Columbia has no on-campus life, and U Chicago has no life of any sort (might be some "life of the mind" hiding in one of the labs)</p>

<p>The University of Pennsylvania is the only top-tier university in a major US city that has both a thriving on-campus life and a thriving off-campus life.</p>

<p>Boston (Harvard) and Washington DC (Georgetown) might count as major US cities...Georgetown could then claim on and off-campus life, but I don't know about Harvard</p>

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<p>"I don't see, though, why UofC's location in Chicago would still put it below Brown's location in Providence LOL"</p>

<p>ever been to Providence?</p>

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<p>Ilovebagels, what happended to Cal, MIT, Northwestern, Rice and UCLA. All of those elite universities are within a 15-20 minute ride from major city downtown areas and all of them have relatively good social scenes. Caltech, Emory, Johns Hopkins and CMU are also located in or around major UC cities, but they are not known for their social scenes.</p>

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<p>UCLA, Cal, MIT, Northwestern, and Rice are all in much more suburban areas of town. Its like BU vs. BC or Gtown vs. GW. a few miles can make a big difference.</p>

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<p>^ I wouldn't classify Berkeley as suburban.</p>

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<p>lol...what's up with the claremont colleges?</p>

<p>A Claremont McKenna
B- Pomona
C Harvey Mudd</p>

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<p>Slipper, those colleges may be suburban, but students can live/party/hang out/eat etc... downtown every single day if they so wish. Those universities are all within a cheap, safe and clean 15-20 minutes trip (either by L, subway or bus) from their respective downtown.</p>

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<p>I'm pretty sure this isn't an objective ranking, it is based off of the votes of students from these colleges. It is supposed to be based off of the nearby bars etc. not drinking in dorms. The reason why different colleges have different rankings in the same city is because there is a different student body voting.</p>

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<p>My 20 year old UChicago son has recently visited a 'fantastic' seedy bar under the city, went for dim sum in Chinatown, a hookah bar in Belmont, an all night diner and then off to a tatoo parlor and body piercing place with two girls...he also regularly attends the opera, various museums and movies at the Gene Siskel theatre....there actually is nightlife at UChicago. However he does complain that Chicago is sleepier than Philly.</p>

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<p>Where is UT-Austin? You can't beat the 6th Street scene and the live music capital of the world...</p>

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<p>UT-Austin isn't a top 25 school so it has no bearing on these rankings. Who really cares about any school after the top 5 anyway?</p>

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<p>
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Oppositely Columbia has all of NYC with thousands of bars but the CAMPUS scene is dead.</p>

<p>UCLA, Cal, MIT, Northwestern, and Rice are all in much more suburban areas of town. Its like BU vs. BC or Gtown vs. GW. a few miles can make a big difference.

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<p>This list/rankings is bogus (how surprising).</p>

<p>The bar/night life scene around Columbia is OK, but hardly great.</p>

<p>For the "good stuff' Columbia students have to take a 40-45 min subway ride down to the Village, etc.</p>

<p>On the other front, NU students don't necessarily have to take a 25-40 minute (depending on which bar scene one wants to go to) L ride - since there are some good bars 10 minutes away (by car) right on the Chicago city border.</p>

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<p>Wow your quite a snob their</p>

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<p>Yes, but "10 minutes by car" (NU) is not the same as "3 minutes walk around the corner" (a real urban school).</p>