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Originally Posted by iheartthed
If SF can lay claim to Stanford, NYC and Philly can both lay claim to Princeton. NY could arguably lay claim to Yale, too.
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yeah, things get muddled because some of these top-level schools are pretty far-flung out in the boonies.
stanford is ~28 miles from downtown san francisco
princeton is ~45 miles from midtown
yale is ~70 miles from midtown
whereas harvard/MIT or Uchicago/northwestern are located within a single "city"
(yes, i know harvard, MIT, and northwestern are technically located within suburban municipalities, but they're close-in burbs that are part of the same urban fabric as their central cities, not far-flung satellite cities/towns like princeton or new haven).
LA also impresses with CalTech, UCLA, and USC all within a single urban area.
still, when you take the sum total of the prestige of boston's academic offerings, with harvard/MIT leading the way, i think most non-partisan observers would concede that it wins on this measure.