15 Best College Town and Cities

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Storrs makes the list

The 15 Best College Towns and Cities in America

From rent to employment options to the cost of a night out, see if your favorite college town makes the grade.

www.moneytalksnews.com

 

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Storrs makes the list

The 15 Best College Towns and Cities in America

From rent to employment options to the cost of a night out, see if your favorite college town makes the grade.

www.moneytalksnews.com

I appreciate the inclusion, but this list seems very random.

 

[whosurdaddy2720]

Storrs makes the list

The 15 Best College Towns and Cities in America

From rent to employment options to the cost of a night out, see if your favorite college town makes the grade.

www.moneytalksnews.com

I bleed blue but Storrs has no business being on any Top College Town list.

Also, this list is just generally horrible anyway. Athens, Ga? Chapel Hill? Madison?? Rexburg, ID in the top 10???

Lol okkk

 

[HobokenHusky]

Yea - For anyone who has never been I typically describe it as "a beautiful 16k-student college campus plopped in the middle of the woods in Connecticut" I always thought that was part of the charm. Def not a college town - just enough business to keep everyone happy.

 

[Guapo]

This list is out of this world stupid

 

[Hoophound]

There are some great college towns on there but when the list doesn’t include Madison, forget it.

Storrs is underrated. It’s a great college experience.

 

[Chin Diesel]

There are some great college towns on there but when the list doesn’t include Madison, forget it.

Storrs is underrated. It’s a great college experience.

I was going to make a smart ass comment about Madison without even opening link.

It's a stereotypical answer.

Usually these lists are great cities that have colleges- New York, Austin, LA, etc.

Or,

They're towns centered around a university- Bloomington, Madison, Clemsonetc

UConn would definitely fall in to the second category.

This list mashed the two categories and I don't think it works.

 

[TMB4405]

It’s been 30 years since I have Jenn there and I am a Uconn grad who visits Storrs frequently. Madison is on a different level and basically a lot of fun.

 

[Guapo]

I know I’ve pounded this drum a million times, but I’m partial to Athens.

Madison is really cool but it’s not a small town centered around the university. It’s more like Austin.

i really like places like Athens, Bloomington and Charolettesville

 

[Kolumbo]

Raleigh seems like most cities with 1/2 million people. Scottsdale is a college town because it has a community college. Very strange list. But hey, I'll take it.

 

[ETSA]

I graduated from IU and my oldest son attended PennState, living on campus for four years and in town for two. The three other kids went to UConn, two of them after Storrs Center was built, or at least most of it. I am ecstatic about what has happened at UConn and Storrs in the last 20 years, but to put Storrs on any list like this and leave Bloomingtion and State College off, is a little crazy. BTW, my brother lives in Irvine and the growth there and at UCI is amazing.

 

[BigTenFan]

I graduated from IU and my oldest son attended PennState, living on campus for four years and in town for two. The three other kids went to UConn, two of them after Storrs Center was built, or at least most of it. I am ecstatic about what has happened at UConn and Storrs in the last 20 years, but to put Storrs on any list like this and leave Bloomingtion and State College off, is a little crazy. BTW, my brother lives in Irvine and the growth there and at UCI is amazing.

Agreed- I am also a Hoosier with a son @ Purdue
UConn has made some great strides but it's not like many of the Big 10 towns

 

[Adios]

Madison is the capital of Wisconson...

Storrs is cool if you like the college to be a town within itself and be surrounded by houses that seem to be from horror movies.

 

[Kolumbo]

I graduated from IU and my oldest son attended PennState, living on campus for four years and in town for two. The three other kids went to UConn, two of them after Storrs Center was built, or at least most of it. I am ecstatic about what has happened at UConn and Storrs in the last 20 years, but to put Storrs on any list like this and leave Bloomingtion and State College off, is a little crazy. BTW, my brother lives in Irvine and the growth there and at UCI is amazing.

My first thought was actually State College. We took a road trip from Storrs to State College and that campus is awesome, from what I remember. I guess there is some type of point system so apparently Storrs scores.

 

[Nostical]

I loved seeing Storrs and Ithaca make the top 15, but when Boulder, CO is 110 it discredits the entire exercise.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Orlando?!?!!

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

They also called MIT an Ivy League school

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Also also, wth is up with the scoring system if the TOP school got 63%?

 

[CTBasketball]

Provo UT huh...

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Provo UT huh...

RAGERS

 

[HuskyHawk]

What an awful list. I would exclude big cities like Seattle and Orlando. To me a college town is one where the college is a large part of the identity of the town/city. I think you can make a case for Cambridge. Storrs doesn't belong on the list, because while UConn is its identity, it isn't much of a town.

I can't imagine any legitimate list that excludes Lawrence, Athens, Madison and other top actual college towns.

 

[superjohn]

State College is even creepier than Provo, Utah.

 

[uconnfan68]

Provo UT huh...

And Rexburg, Idaho? How did 2 Mormon schools make that list?

 

[HuskyHawk]

And Rexburg, Idaho? How did 2 Mormon schools make that list?

Must be all the drinking and sex.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

As a college town, Chapel Hill is hard to beat. Storrs has improved a lot. I am not sure about top 15, but it has improved.