Urban Culture & Selectivity

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Rankings

The Urban Culture score is based on ease of access to the cultural offerings of a city without the use of a car.

1. Columbia University
2. Harvard University
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4. University of Pennsylvania
4. Cooper Union
6. Swarthmore College
6. Georgetown University
6. Northwestern University
9. University of California, Berkeley
10. New York University
10. University of Chicago
12. Barnard College
13. Brown University
13. Haverford College
15. California Institute of Technology
16. Northeastern University
17. Washington University, St. Louis
18. Johns Hopkins University
18. Emory University
20. Macalester College
21. Georgia Institute of Technology
21. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
23. Boston College
24. Polytechnic Institute of New York University
25. Vanderbilt University
26. Reed College
26. Bryn Mawr College
28. University of Southern California
29. Rice University
30. George Washington University
31. Yale University
32. Carnegie Mellon University
33. Tufts University
34. Harvey Mudd College
35. Pomona College
36. University of California, Los Angeles
36. University of Wisconsin, Madison
38. Villanova University
39. Boston University
40. University of Texas, Austin
41. New College of Florida
42. Wellesley College
43. Amherst College
44. Claremont McKenna College
45. Princeton University
46. Case Western Reserve University
47. University of California, San Diego
48. Brandeis University
48. Scripps College
50. Rhodes College

Just like the Nature and Sports variants, this ranking pulls a score (assigned by me) and the 75% SAT score from a school with 2/3 and 1/3 weight accorded respectively.