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Brookings did well, finishing just behind a couple of Ivy Leauge towns.
TOWNS
1 Hanover, NH
2 Princeton, NJ
3 Brookings, SD
4 Middlebury, VT
5 Durango, CO
6 Bronxville, NY
7 Menomonie, WI
8 Oneonta, NY
9 Rolla, MO
10 Conway, SC
http://www.brookingsregister.com/mai...02&page=23
Brookings: a top college town
By John Kubal
* ‘Someplace Special’ city in ‘ePodunk’ top 10
When it comes to great college towns as ranked by the ePodunk study, Brookings makes the cut with a No. 3 ranking in the “Towns” category.
That’s just behind the towns that are the sites of two Ivy League schools — No. 1 Hanover, N.H., home of Dartmouth College, and No. 2 Princeton, N.J., home of Princeton University.
Noted for its variety of “Top Ten Lists,” ePodunk cited four categories of “Top-ranked College Towns by Community Size”: Big Cities, with Boston-Cambridge, home of several major colleges and universities, the leader; Medium-sized Cites, Columbia, S.C., home of Columbia and the University of South Carolina, taking the top spot; Small Cities, with Charlottesville, Va., home of the University of Virginia, the best of 10 in that group; and Towns.
The 2000 census populations used for the ePodunk ratings were: big cities, 300,000 or more; medium-sized cities, 100,000 to 299,999; small cities, 20,000 to 99,999, and towns, up to 19,999.
The ePodunk study says “great college towns have a spark that comes not only from young blood, but from jazz clubs, literary events, book stores, and cafes. They are intellectual, cultural and economic hubs, balancing tradition with new business growth. Often, they mix urban amenities and small-town charm.”
While the study Web site is general, it serves as a guide to getting specific information in the “ePodunk College Towns Index,” which “does not rank the colleges themselves, but the communities in which they’re based. Our study is not based on a student survey, nor is it a rating of bars and night life.”
Instead, ePodunk looked at 15 variables “to assess arts and culture, recreation, intellectual, historic preservation and the cost of living.” Included were population, college enrollment, per-capita income, unemployment, owner-occupied housing, entertainment offerings, symphony orchestras, and historic sites.
The index cited Brookings as “a growing city with a number of information-related companies and a low unemployment rate (1.2 percent versus a national rate of 4 percent). It demonstrates strong support of the public library system and historic preservation.”
The city’s population was put at 18,504, an increase of 13.7 percent from 1990 to 2000. And variables, which compared Brookings with national numbers included: median age 23.5, national 35.3; per capita income $17,028, national $21,587, and owner-occupied housing, 43.7 percent. But while the Web sites were copyrighted 2004, when the numbers and statistics were updated is hard to determine.
However, the ePodunk “Community” site for Brookings does confirm that Brookings is “ranked No. 3 among towns in the ‘ePodunk College Town Index, 2002.’” Beyond that, statistics don’t come into play. Brookings noted for its Summer Arts Festival, State Agricultural Heritage Museum and South Dakota Art Museum and for being the home of South Dakota State University.
More about Brookings, one of the nation’s “Great College Towns,” can be found on the Internet at http://www.epodunk.com/top10/colleges/ index.html.
TOWNS
1 Hanover, NH
2 Princeton, NJ
3 Brookings, SD
4 Middlebury, VT
5 Durango, CO
6 Bronxville, NY
7 Menomonie, WI
8 Oneonta, NY
9 Rolla, MO
10 Conway, SC
http://www.brookingsregister.com/mai...02&page=23
Brookings: a top college town
By John Kubal
* ‘Someplace Special’ city in ‘ePodunk’ top 10
When it comes to great college towns as ranked by the ePodunk study, Brookings makes the cut with a No. 3 ranking in the “Towns” category.
That’s just behind the towns that are the sites of two Ivy League schools — No. 1 Hanover, N.H., home of Dartmouth College, and No. 2 Princeton, N.J., home of Princeton University.
Noted for its variety of “Top Ten Lists,” ePodunk cited four categories of “Top-ranked College Towns by Community Size”: Big Cities, with Boston-Cambridge, home of several major colleges and universities, the leader; Medium-sized Cites, Columbia, S.C., home of Columbia and the University of South Carolina, taking the top spot; Small Cities, with Charlottesville, Va., home of the University of Virginia, the best of 10 in that group; and Towns.
The 2000 census populations used for the ePodunk ratings were: big cities, 300,000 or more; medium-sized cities, 100,000 to 299,999; small cities, 20,000 to 99,999, and towns, up to 19,999.
The ePodunk study says “great college towns have a spark that comes not only from young blood, but from jazz clubs, literary events, book stores, and cafes. They are intellectual, cultural and economic hubs, balancing tradition with new business growth. Often, they mix urban amenities and small-town charm.”
While the study Web site is general, it serves as a guide to getting specific information in the “ePodunk College Towns Index,” which “does not rank the colleges themselves, but the communities in which they’re based. Our study is not based on a student survey, nor is it a rating of bars and night life.”
Instead, ePodunk looked at 15 variables “to assess arts and culture, recreation, intellectual, historic preservation and the cost of living.” Included were population, college enrollment, per-capita income, unemployment, owner-occupied housing, entertainment offerings, symphony orchestras, and historic sites.
The index cited Brookings as “a growing city with a number of information-related companies and a low unemployment rate (1.2 percent versus a national rate of 4 percent). It demonstrates strong support of the public library system and historic preservation.”
The city’s population was put at 18,504, an increase of 13.7 percent from 1990 to 2000. And variables, which compared Brookings with national numbers included: median age 23.5, national 35.3; per capita income $17,028, national $21,587, and owner-occupied housing, 43.7 percent. But while the Web sites were copyrighted 2004, when the numbers and statistics were updated is hard to determine.
However, the ePodunk “Community” site for Brookings does confirm that Brookings is “ranked No. 3 among towns in the ‘ePodunk College Town Index, 2002.’” Beyond that, statistics don’t come into play. Brookings noted for its Summer Arts Festival, State Agricultural Heritage Museum and South Dakota Art Museum and for being the home of South Dakota State University.
More about Brookings, one of the nation’s “Great College Towns,” can be found on the Internet at http://www.epodunk.com/top10/colleges/ index.html.
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