<p>That’s one of the dumbest methodologies I have ever seen as bad as USN’s is. I guess it would save time in actually doing some legwork in creating such a list, but it has nothing to do with desirability of a campus because it’s in an urban environment – the city actually drawing people to its encapsulated u because people want to experience big-city life while attending u. </p>
<p>It’s a play on words… supposed, most desirable campuses based on factors related to the school, prestige, etc, added to the fact that u’s are in an urban environment. </p>
<p>It’s a typical Newsweek list of various things, they supposedly did research on… more likely they compiled this list off their master “rankings” list.</p>
<p>And as hard as I would believe that for Yale and New Haven combine for an urban environment as gritty as the city generally is. I consider urban more as a really large city like NYC, Chicago, or LA.</p>
<p>But then again, Newsweek listed University of Arizona as one of the top universities wrt “power brokering.”</p>
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<p>I don’t know how much you’ve seen of UCLA, and I agree WW can be pretty ‘sucky,’ but there are other parts nearby that are pretty non-sucky. Try taking Sunset next time, both east and west. Agree, UCLA is on the periphery of LA.</p>
<p>And USC IS in LA; it’s in downtown LA. I don’t comprehend how a school being right in the middle of a city not really being in it.</p>