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July 14, 2019
World's Best Cultural Cities for Students
Photo: College students, downtown, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Image Credit: Fernando Stankuns.
Photo: College students, downtown, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Image Credit: Fernando Stankuns.
Photo: Auto show, Santiago, Chile. Image Credit: Francisco Osorio.
LONDON, July 13, 2019 — The UK and US are home to the most cultural cities for students. A new study by Oxford Summer Courses examined the towns that are home to some of the world’s most prestigious colleges and ranked them according to the number of museums, cinemas, libraries, theaters and street markets per 100,000 people. The UK and US lead the list, with the American city of Berkeley in California coming out on top.
Second in the ranking was Ithaca, home to the Ivy League Cornell University. Ithaca, New York, is ranked high for its museums and theaters. Cambridge (UK) follows Ithaca. Cambridge (UK) is ranked highly across all categories, in particular, public libraries and theaters. The UK overall is well represented, with six cities - Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, Glasgow, Bristol, and Manchester - featuring in the top 20.
The United States and the United Kingdom both ranked highly in the top 20, with eight and six cities featured, respectively.
Cambridge (3rd place) beat out old-time rival Oxford (8th place) in the ranking.
Continental European cities outside the UK also performed well, with Amsterdam, Paris, Lausanne, and Zurich making to the top 20.
The top 10 cities, according to the research, are:
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Ithaca, NY, USA
- Cambridge, UK
- Cambridge, USA
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Edinburgh, UK
- Paris, France
- Oxford, UK
- Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Lausanne, Switzerland
Paris’s inclusion on the list - in 7th place - is no surprise. It has some 300 museums and 132 theaters. Amsterdam and Edinburgh have been rated two spots above Paris for their collections of museums and bold cultural identities.
The results show that the UK has much to offer students from a cultural perspective. Historic cities such as Oxford and Cambridge not only rank highly in traditional cultural categories, such as theaters, museums, and libraries but also live music venues and street food markets.
Interestingly, despite their reputations as cultural beacons of the world, metropolises London and New York come in at relatively low 25th and 42nd positions, respectively. Although neither are short of cultural places to visit, their large populations mean that each scored relatively small on a per capita basis.
The cities selected for rating are home to Top Global Universities and lead in providing the following cultural facilities:
- Theaters
- Museums
- Cinemas
- Public Libraries
- Live Music Venues
- Street Markets
- Street Food Markets
The study concludes that the culture offered by a city forms an integral part of the student experience.
|GlobalGiants.Com|
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