<p>I’m not talking about the college itself, but the sorrunding area, and how well the city supports the schools. Here’s mine:</p>
<li>Berkely/The Bay Area</li>
<li>Austin</li>
<li>Madison</li>
<li>Cambrige/Boston</li>
<li>Colombus</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>Chapel Hill</li>
<li>New Haven</li>
<li>Los Angeles</li>
<li>New York</li>
<li>Athens (Georgia)</li>
<li>Bloomington</li>
<li>Lawrence</li>
<li>Ithica</li>
<li>Minneapolis</li>
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<p>Ann Arbor could probably be on that list.</p>
<p>And while Chicago, LA, NYC are great cities to spend your college years in, but I personally would not call them college towns. I'm thinking of a town/area that is centered around the school, or the school has a significant impact on the city. But that is just me. But most of those cities would be cool to go to college in.</p>
<p>I agree that Madison is high on the list, but it is a bit weird that you have cities like New York and Chicago on here. I'd agree that Berkeley is first because it is such a geographically ridiculously amazing city, though.</p>
<p>Any list that does not include Ann Arbor in it is silly. Any list that includes major cities with millions people in them, is even sillier. By definition they are not college towns.</p>
<p>I would for sure add Ann Arbor, maybe South Bend Indiana (Notre Dame) and also EVanston, IL where Northwestern in located is amazing-safe, full of trendy shops and restaurants, close to Chicago, beautiful (many movies filmed there), etc.</p>
<p>South Bend is a dump. It is a horrible city. Evanston is a suburb of Chicago, not really an independent college town and I'd venture to say that most residents are not affiliated in any way with the university. It also has some sketchy neighborhoods, but much nicer than South Bend.</p>
<p>I'm a Notre Dame fan and I hope to go to school there and South Bend is the last place I'd want to spend my college years at. Well, it could be Idaho...</p>
<p>Campus is great, one of the best in the country, but South Bend...not so much.</p>
<p>I've been to Lawrence, KS (University of Kansas) and Manhattan, KS (Kansas State Univ.), and both are great college towns. Ithaca, NY is also nice, although it has a very cold, long winter -- beautiful area for the other three seasons, though. I worked in Chapel Hill for a while after I graduated from Duke. It was great then, and my guess is that the essential character of the town hasn't changed although the area has grown quite a bit since I was there.</p>
<p>I only meant South Bend in that the WHOLE community is filled w/ huge ND fans and go to all the football games and stuff...idk..i guess if you like that whole Hoosiers school-spirity kinda town its good...i didn't really mean it was this amazing fun place...</p>
<p>I know what you mean about Evanston, but I still love it to death.</p>
<p>Yeah, I get your drift. All over SB, you'll see stuff like "Eat like a Champion Today", etc...</p>
<p>All college towns are like that coffeeaddict9716. In my opinion South Bend really isn't a college town. Most ND fans attending the games are not from the immediate area.</p>
<p>Chicago, LA, Minneapolis, SF, and New York cannot be called college towns. I like Yale, but calling New Haven a great college town is a stretch by any means.</p>
<p>My top 10 list would be:</p>
<p>Ann Arbor, MI
Athens, GA
Austin, TX
Bloomington, IN
Boston, MA
Boulder, CO
Chapel Hill, NC
Eugene, OR
Gainesville, FL
Madison, WI</p>
<p>Honorable mentions to:</p>
<p>Lawrence, KS
Ithaca, NY
Portland, OR</p>
<p>what about pittsburgh? Wasn't there some statistic saying that pittsburgh had the highest number of college students? Or am I confusing another city with that title?</p>
<p>college station - that town survives on Texas A&M. They live, breathe and die everything Aggie</p>
<p>Would you really want to go to school in Pittsburgh? Really?</p>
<p>For cities over a certain size (I'm not sure what the size is), Boston has the largest percentage of college students; Pittsburgh isnumber 2 with about 15%.</p>
<p>I would definitely include Charlottesville on the list.</p>
<p>How about DC?</p>
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I'm not talking about the college itself, but the sorrunding area, and how well the city supports the schools. Here's mine:</p>
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<li>Berkely(sic)/The Bay Area
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"Supports the schools." Are you kidding?!! The city of Berkeley sued in court to prevent the U from renovating the stadium. They fight any expansion of the U -- more students, building housing, etc.</li>
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<p>Decatur Atlanta, emory university</p>