选校参考：美国大学最佳地理位置排名TOP100

在选校的过程中，除了排名、学校名气、专业等因素，地理位置其实也是一个很重要的参考因素，近期，Niche网站的公布了2017年全美地理位置最佳排名TOP100（2017 Best College Locations in America），1374所四年制大学，来自学生的评价、学校周围牛吧、餐厅的数量、生活成本、气候状况、18-24岁居民所占比例、地方犯罪水平、户外活动水平等因素。下面我们来看看具体的排名情况。

Rank	University	Location
1	University of San Francisco	San Francisco, CA
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, MA
3	Lesley University	Cambridge, MA
4	New York University	New York, NY
5	Harvard University	Cambridge, MA
6	Northeastern University	Boston, MA
7	Stevens Institute of Technology	Hoboken, NJ
8	Boston University	Boston, MA
9	Emmanuel College - Massachusetts	Boston, MA
10	College of Charleston	Charleston, SC
11	Seattle University	Seattle, WA
12	University of California - Berkeley	Berkeley, CA
13	Fashion Institute of Technology	New York, NY
14	Champlain College	Burlington, VT
15	The New School	New York, NY
16	Emerson College	Boston, MA
17	San Francisco State University	San Francisco, CA
18	Suffolk University	Boston, MA
19	Parsons - The New School for Design	New York, NY
20	Columbia University	New York, NY
21	University of Colorado - Boulder	Boulder, CO
22	George Washington University	Washington, DC
23	University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA
24	Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences	Boston, MA
24	University of Colorado - Denver	Denver, CO
26	Vanguard University of Southern California	Costa Mesa, CA
27	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor, MI
28	Arizona State University	Tempe, AZ
29	Wentworth Institute of Technology	Boston, MA
30	Georgetown University	Washington, DC
31	Metropolitan State University of Denver	Denver, CO
32	University of Washington	Seattle, WA
33	Chatham University	Pittsburgh, PA
34	Simmons College	Boston, MA
35	Berklee College of Music	Boston, MA
36	Portland State University	Portland, OR
37	University of Vermont	Burlington, VT
38	Western Washington University	Bellingham, WA
39	Barnard College	New York, NY
40	Wheelock College	Boston, MA
41	University of Georgia	Athens, GA
42	DePaul University	Chicago, IL
43	Colorado State University	Fort Collins, CO
44	University of Wisconsin	Madison, WI
45	Tulane University	New Orleans, LA
46	CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice	New York, NY
47	The Boston Conservatory	Boston, MA
48	University of Minnesota - Twin Cities	Minneapolis, MN
49	University of Kansas	Lawrence, KS
50	California College of the Arts	San Francisco, CA
51	Loyola University New Orleans	New Orleans, LA
52	Duquesne University	Pittsburgh, PA
53	University of Denver	Denver, CO
54	American University	Washington, DC
55	Massachusetts College of Art & Design	Boston, MA
56	University of California - Los Angeles	Los Angeles, CA
57	Saint Edward's University	Austin, TX
58	Roosevelt University	Chicago, IL
59	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, PA
60	CUNY Baruch College	New York, NY
61	Columbia College Chicago	Chicago, IL
62	University of the Arts	Philadelphia, PA
63	University of San Diego	San Diego, CA
64	University of Texas - Austin	Austin, TX
65	Carlow University	Pittsburgh, PA
66	Catholic University of America	Washington, DC
67	Thomas Jefferson University	Philadelphia, PA
68	Clemson University	Clemson, SC
69	Seattle Pacific University	Seattle, WA
70	Drexel University	Philadelphia, PA
71	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill, NC
72	Marymount Manhattan College	New York, NY
73	University of South Florida - St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, FL
74	Viterbo University	La Crosse, WI
75	Cornish College of the Arts	Seattle, WA
76	Salve Regina University	Newport, RI
77	California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo	San Luis Obispo, CA
78	Edgewood College	Madison, WI
79	The College of Saint Rose	Albany, NY
80	University of Miami	Coral Gables, FL
81	University of California - Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara, CA
82	Point Loma Nazarene University	San Diego, CA
83	Johnson & Wales University	Providence, RI
84	Smith College	Northampton, MA
85	Rollins College	Winter Park, FL
86	Lewis & Clark College	Portland, OR
87	University of Illinois at Chicago	Chicago, IL
88	Chaminade University of Honolulu	Honolulu, HI
89	Hawaii Pacific University	Honolulu, HI
90	St. Francis College	Brooklyn Heights, NY
91	University of Iowa	Iowa City, IA
92	Loyola Marymount University	Los Angeles, CA
93	Augsburg College	Minneapolis, MN
94	Brown University	Providence, RI
95	North Central University	Minneapolis, MN
96	University of California - Davis	Davis, CA
97	Pratt Institute	Brooklyn, NY
98	Georgia State University	Atlanta, GA
99	Indiana University - Bloomington	Bloomington, IN
100	University of Wisconsin - La Crosse	La Crosse, WI