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Boston-Cambridge, MA
Class: Big city
Class rank: 1
College is a major industry in Boston-Cambridge, and a central part of its image. The community scored high in the arts, entertainment, book stores and information-related companies.
Combined college enrollment: 132,345
Population: 690,496
Population change, 1990-2000: 3.0%
Median age: 31.1
(National: 35.3)
Per capita income: $40,748
(National: $21,587)
Unemployment rate: 3.0
(National: 4.0)
Owner-occupied housing: 32.25%
Public library expenditures, per capita: $69.73
Community profiles:
Boston, MA
Cambridge, MA
College profiles:
Harvard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston University
Northeastern University
Boston College
University of Massachusetts Boston
Suffolk University
Emerson College
Simmons College
Berklee College of Music
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Massachusetts College of Art
New England Conservatory of Music
Emmanuel College
Boston Architectural Center
Art Institute of Boston
Boston Conservatory
Notes:
1. All figures are for the years 1999-2000.
2. Combined enrollment figures are for the four-year colleges included in this
survey.
3. Unemployment rates are an annual average.
4. Per-capita income and unemployment rates are county-level statistics.
For more on the sources and statistics used in this study, see methodology.
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TOP-RANKED COLLEGE TOWNS
BY COMMUNITY SIZE |
| BIG CITIES |
1 Boston-Cambridge, MA
2 Minneapolis, MN
3 Denver, CO
4 Columbus, OH
5 Seattle, WA
6 Atlanta, GA
7 Austin, TX
8 Washington, DC
9 Cincinnati, OH
10 Saint Louis, MO
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| MEDIUM-SIZED CITIES |
1 Columbia, SC
2 Tallahassee, FL
3 Madison, WI
4 Urbana-Champaign, IL
5 Ann Arbor, MI
6 Berkeley, CA
7 Athens, GA
8 Fort Collins, CO
9 New Haven, CT
10 Provo, UT
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| SMALL CITIES |
1 Charlottesville, VA
2 Bozeman, MT
3 Hays, KS
4 Boulder, CO
5 Missoula, MT
6 Manhattan, KS
7 Burlington, VT
8 Bismarck, ND
9 Iowa City, IA
10 Chapel Hill,
NC
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| TOWNS |
1 Hanover, NH
2 Princeton, NJ
3 Brookings, SD
4 Middlebury, VT
5 Durango, CO
6 Bronxville, NY
7 Menomonie, WI
8 Oneonta, NY
9 Rolla, MO
10 Conway, SC
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