<p>The</a> Happiest Colleges In The Country According To The Daily Beast's 2013 Ranking</p>
<p>And for comparison--last year.</p>
<p>Unigo:</a> Top 10 Colleges with the Happiest Students</p>
<p>Kind of interesting that last year was mostly privates and this year is mostly publics. While it is a fun ranking, I’m of the belief that almost any college can be a happy place if you let yourself get involved.</p>
<p>Going forward, I expect the happiest students to be from Universities in Colorado…if you know what I mean :)-</p>
<p>Or Washington.</p>
<p>This REALLY is a stupid, useless list with a horribly flawed methodology. I pray no one actually even considers this even a tiny bit in their considerations. Sometimes “no data” is better than “horribly flawed data.”</p>
<p>So, are you saying kids at Stanford and Wisconsin and TAMU are not happy? Or you just don’t like the results?</p>
<p>I’ll chime in. Even if you could measure happiness the question remains : is it cause or correlation? Are the students happy because of the college or did the college attract happy students?</p>
<p>Well, if you like this type of recognition, you might accept the one that claims that Ithaca is the best college town in the US</p>
<p>[HuffPost</a> Live](<a href=“Videos | HuffPost”>Videos | HuffPost)</p>
<p>Perhaps after make sure those gorges have enough nets to protect the less than happy students at Cornell.</p>
<p>It’s not just “the one”. Nor is it “the first”.</p>
<p>Ithaca named #1 Best College Town by The 2013-2014 AIER College Destinations Index, November 2013</p>
<p>Ithaca Ranked #1 “America’s Best College Towns” by HomeInsurance.com, October 2013</p>
<p>Ithaca named in “Top 25 Youngest Best Places to Live - America’s Best Small Towns” - CNN Money, August 2013</p>
<p>Ithaca ranks #4 for “10 Most Livable Cities” - MSN Real Estate News, August 2013</p>
<p>Ithaca ranked #8 - “10 Great Places to Live” by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, July 2013</p>
<p>Ithaca named #1 Smartest City in America by VentureBeat online, June 2013 (based on study by Luminosity)</p>
<p>Ithaca named #1 best college town in America - “Top 10 Best College Towns in America” by Business Insider, January 2013</p>
<p>Ithaca ranked “#1 College Destination” by American Institute for Economic Research, October 2012</p>
<p>Ithaca ranked one of the “Best River Towns in America” by Outside Magazine, September 2012</p>
<p>Ithaca ranked one of 19 “Perfect Towns” by Outside magazine, Oct. 2011</p>
<p>Ithaca once again ranked in “Top 100 Places to Live” by RelocateAmerica.com, June, ‘11</p>
<p>Ithaca ranked #1 “Best College Town” (under 250,000 pop.) by American Institute for Economic Research, Sept. ‘10</p>
<p>Ithaca ranked #7 in “America’s Brainiest Metros”, The Daily Beast, online, August, ‘10</p>
<p>Ithaca ranked #1 among 350 U.S metro areas as the best place for recent college grads, The Daily Beast, online, June, ‘10</p>
<p>Ithaca ranked in top-100 places to live, top-10 recreation cities and top-10 small towns by RelocateAmerica.com, April, ‘10</p>
<p>Ithaca ranked in top-100 American cities by RelocateAmerica.com, April 2009</p>
<p>Ithaca ranked #6 in “The 20 Best Towns in America” by Outside magazine, Aug. 2008</p>
<p>Ithaca ranked third among “America’s Smartest Cities,” by Forbes Magazine, Feb. 2008</p>
<p>Ithaca ranked third in Relocate America’s “Top 100 Places to Live in 2007,” Relocate-America.com, April 2007</p>
<p>Ithaca ranked first in “12 Great Places You’ve Never Heard Of,” Mother Earth News magazine, July/Aug. 2006</p>
<p>Ranked eighth in “50 Smart Places to Live”, Kiplingers Personal Finance, June 2006</p>
<p>Ithaca ranked fourth in Relocate America’s “Top 100 Places to Live in 2006,” April, 2006. Relocate-America.com</p>
<p>“Number-One Emerging City,” in the book “Cities Ranked and Rated” by Bert Sperling and Peter Sander, 2004</p>
<p>Ithaca Ranks 14 in Outside Magazine’s “40 Best College Towns,” September 2003</p>
<p>“Best Places to Vacation,” Money Magazine, April 2002</p>
<p>“100 Great Escapes: Top-10 Trips,” Travel & Leisure Magazine, March/April 2002</p>
<p>“25 Terrific Places to Bring up a Family,” Mothering Magazine, July/ August 2001</p>
<p>“America’s Most Enlightened City,” Utne Reader, May 1997</p>
<p>Also often cited for being among the best places to retire.</p>