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November 27, 2014

What Makes a Great Student City? Discover the Top Cities for Students with QS Best Student Cities 2015 Announced Today

Photo: “University Life”. Photo Credit: Photographer © Francisco Osorio.

Photo: “University Life”. Photo Credit: Photographer © Francisco Osorio.

Photo: London, United Kingdom. “Where am I?”. Photo Credit: Photographer © Daniele Zanni.

Paris tops for the third consecutive year the QS Best Student Cities, a ranking of the world’s top cities for students, released today.

Melbourne (2nd) gains three places while London drops to the third position.

The ranking, compiled by the team behind the QS World University Rankings, is based on five key pillars, which are then broken down into individual criteria:

• University Rankings
• Student Mix
• Quality of Living
• Employer Activity
• Affordability

To be included in the ranking, each city must have a population of over 2,50,000, and must be home to at least two ranked institutions in the QS World University Rankings. 116 cities in the world qualify on this basis, and 50 have been ranked.

This year, the number of criteria has increased from 14 to 18, adding in metrics on Safety and Pollution as well as the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index and the Social Progress Index.

29 countries are represented with the most cities in the US (8), followed by Australia (6), UK (4) and by Canada and Japan with 3 apiece.

Europe boasts 20 cities, North America 12, Asia 9, Oceania 7 and South America 2.

QS Best Student Cities 2015

1. Paris, France
2. Melbourne, Australia
3. London, United Kingdom
4. Sydney, Australia
5. Hong Kong, Asia
6. Boston, Massachusetts, United States
7. Tokyo, Japan
8. Montreal, Canada
9. Toronto, Canada
10. Seoul, South Korea
11. Zurich, Switzerland
12. Vancouver, Canada
13. San Francisco, California, United States
14. Munich, Germany
15. Singapore, Asia
16. Berlin, Germany
17. New York, United States
18. Chicago, Illinois, United States
19. Barcelona, Spain
20. Vienna, Austria
21. Canberra, Australia
22. Auckland, New Zealand
23. Brisbane, Australia
24. Buenos Aires, Argentina
25. Taipei, Taiwan
26. Beijing, China
27. Edinburgh, United Kingdom
28. Copenhagen, Denmark
29. Adelaide, Australia
30. Manchester, United Kingdom
31. Los Angeles, United States
32. Dublin, Ireland
33. Shanghai, China
34. Kyoto, Japan
35. Stockholm, Sweden
36. Milan, Italy
37. Amsterdam, Netherlands
38. Perth, Australia
39. Helsinki, Finland
40. Madrid, Spain
41. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
42. Washington DC, United States
43. Moscow, Russia
44. Santiago, Chile
45. Coventry, United Kingdom
46. Pittsburgh, United States
47. Brussels, Belgium
48. Osaka, Japan
49. Prague, Czech Republic
50. Mexico City, Mexico

|GlobalGiants.Com|

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