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80% of all UCD students live off campus.</p>
<p>Of course, that is not a very helpful statistic without knowing where those students live. There is a very big difference between having students live in neighborhoods directly around a university and spread throughout a city.</p>
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To play devil’s advocate…</p>
<p>The vast majority of anthropology students don’t become anthropologists, and most history majors don’t become historians. For a student interested in law or government work, is it really “settling” to choose Vanderbilt over Michigan for anthropology?</p>
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The Archaeological Institute of America gives out an award each year for excellence in undergraduate teaching. The colleges of each are listed below:</p>
<p>2009 Minnesota
2008 UNC Chapel Hill
2007 NYU
2006 Arizona
2005 GWU
2004 Missouri-St. Louis
2003 Willamette
2002 Wooster
2001 Indiana
2000 None
1999 Evansville
1998 Michigan (now at Brown)
1997 Boston U
1996 Minnesota</p>
<p>Obviously this is far too small a sample set to draw any conclusions from, but it does demonstrate that excellent scholar-teachers can be found at many colleges.</p>