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In general, I would say Boston since it's loaded to the brim with Colleges and Universities. You really get that college experience. Dating and making friends would be easier since you can associate w/people from other universities.
If you want to work in technology then they Bay area would be the best suit for you. But if you're a business major then I would try to be around the NYC. If you plan on working in government, you'll probably be better off in DC.
And it's a major oversight to leave the Bay Area out of the choices: Cal, Stanford, UCSF, etc.
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Originally Posted by OyCrumbler
I'd probably say all 5 Claremont Colleges are pretty good, plus Occidental. All of them, save for maybe Pitzer which is close, are usually in the top 50 liberal arts college rankings.
Los Angeles is a major player in higher education (with UCLA and USC having gone steadily up in the rankings). The only issue is that Los Angeles does a relatively poor job of retaining its talent, and for brokeass students, mass transit and neighborhood vibrancy in many of the neighborhoods surrounding the aforementioned campuses aren't so great so it often leaves students in a college bubble of sorts.
Los Angeles metro is definitely one of the top places for higher education. Here's some more:
Pepperdine University
UCR
Loyola Marymount University
Cal State Los Angeles
Cal State Long Beach
Art Center (in Pasadena)
This is a sample I can come up with off the top of my head:
Boston:
Harvard
MIT
Northeastern
BU
BC
Chicago:
U of Chicago
Northwestern
DePaul
New York:
NYU
Fordham
Hofstra
Columbia
Washington, D.C.
Howard
Georgetown
George Washington
Los Angeles
USC
UCLA
Dallas/Ft. Woth:
TCU
SMU
North Texas
Philadelphia:
Penn
Temple
Villanova
Pittsburgh:
Pitt
Carnegie Mellon
Duquesne
i have no idea how you could forget to put drexel on the philadelphia list. Also you forgot St Josephs, La Salle, University of the Sciences, and Jefferson.
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