Minneapolis ranked 25th best college town in America

[BleedGopher]

per BTN:

Here’s how the Big Ten fared:
No. 2: Ann Arbor, Mich.
No. 3 Madison, Wis.
No. 8: State College, Pa.
No. 9: Iowa City, Iowa
No. 13: Champaign-Urbana, Ill.
No. 25: Minneapolis, Minn.
No. 27: Lincoln, Neb.
No. 33: Lafayette, Ind.*
No. 36: Bloomington, Ind.
No. 49: Lansing, Mich.*

http://btn.com/2014/08/14/site-ranks-ann-arbor-no-2-college-town-in-america/

Go Gophers!!

 

[MadtownGopher]

Champaign is pretty horrible. It's definitely ranked way too high. I'd say Bloomington is ranked way too low. Can't really argue with the rest.

 

[gophers&guns]

Hmmm no Columbus on the list, interesting.

 

[tikited]

Champaign is pretty horrible. It's definitely ranked way too high.

Agree. There is nothing at all there. I'd almost rather go to Purdue which isn't saying much.

 

[WindyCityGopher]

Champaign is pretty horrible. It's definitely ranked way too high. I'd say Bloomington is ranked way too low. Can't really argue with the rest.

Definitely horrible, unless you like getting black-out drunk, which is what a lot of people do there, students and townies alike. Good school, bad location.

 

[oleboy41]

Minneapolis is a better city than all of those easily

 

[Nokomis]

Boulder is #1 & Corvallis is #10. Should make for some fun away trips in the next few years.

 

[GopherPD]

The criteria that is used in creating this list is mystifing. In looking at the list, the only city similar in size to Minneapolis is Pittsburgh. Seattle, a great city with a large university, fails to make the list. Tacoma a not so great city with a few small colleges makes the list; St. Paul does not. Fargo not only makes the list, it ranks higher than Minneapolis. Whoever came up with this list should either scrap it entirely or go back to the drawing board.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

Great College Town =\= Great City

 

[Ski U Mah Gopher]

The Chapel/Cathedral list is interesting.

In the top 30, there is UST's St. Mary's Chapel at #7 and Christ Chapel (Gustavus) at #18. The Cathedral list is world-wide. So to have 2 in Minnesota is cool.

 

[Gopher Bandanna Guy]

West Lafayette over Bloomington? How did this happen?

 

[die hard gopher]

Great College Town =\= Great City

Great college town = middle of nowhere

 

[everybody knows my name]

Somebody check my math.

I counted ten cities on that list. There are now fourteen schools in the Big Ten. That leaves four unaccounted for.

Is my pre-common-core arithmetic correct?

 

[Unregistered User]

Somebody check my math.

I counted ten cities on that list. There are now fourteen schools in the Big Ten. That leaves four unaccounted for.

Is my pre-common-core arithmetic correct?

They only listed the top 50 nationwide.

 

[BJN]

Ames at #5 is the biggest joke. I found nothing at all impressive about that place.

 

[Word]

Grand Forks ahead of Flagstaff, AZ? Are you kidding me? This list has no credibility! I'd also probably put Columbia, MO much higher on the list.

 

[Mr. Gopher]

Madison #3? Is that a joke? I have been to that crap hole several times and it has nothing on the Twin Cities. It should barely even be considered a city. If it weren't for the BADgers, those backwater hicks would have nothing to do except drive a tractor up and down State Street. All those losers have is their precious little BADgers. Give me the Cities any day of the week were I can actually take a light rail to go see some civilization (ie: art, theater, culture, electricity.) If I'm a young recruit, there's no way I am going to want to live in that po-dunk ghetto.

 

[husker70]

Any list like this that does not include Baton Rouge, Seattle, Tempe, Columbus, or even New Orleans is open to question. And the order, I have been to Ames, Waterlooo, Manhattan, Lawrence, Austin, Madison, Champaign, and none come close to Athens or Oxford.

 

[ruppertflywheel]

The only stadium I've sat in that is more uncomfortable than "Cramp Randall " is the stadium at Cal Berkley. The seats had splinters in them.

 

[station19]

Any list like this that does not include Baton Rouge, Seattle, Tempe, Columbus, or even New Orleans is open to question. And the order, I have been to Ames, Waterlooo, Manhattan, Lawrence, Austin, Madison, Champaign, and none come close to Athens or Oxford.

Ohio?

 

[Buck_Buchanan]

I'd focus on this list instead. I know our coaches have at least.

Personally, I liked this excerpt from the article:

The only way to do well in this list is to produce superior undergraduates that succeed later in life, enjoy their experience, and graduate on time without high debt.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

So I'm learning that Gopherholers have no idea what the difference between a great college town and a great city is. I didn't think it was that complex. To be honest, Minneapolis at 25 is generous.

 

[GophersInIowa]

So I'm learning that Gopherholers have no idea what the difference between a great college town and a great city is. I didn't think it was that complex. To be honest, Minneapolis at 25 is generous.

I was surprised as well.