Another worthless ranking system. It must be if it considers Tampa the #4 college town. Guess it depends on how you define college town (I think of it as Chapel Hill or Charlottesville).
Tampa is home to USF, a large public (40k students) and UTampa (mid size private). For many yrs, USF was considered a commuter school. It still has very liottle housing relative to the student body (although does have new dorms). We’ve lived 10 minutes from campus for 26 yrs, and I would in no way consider it a college town as in the town caters to the school, exists because of the school, has the spirit of the school, etc. Just doesn’t exist. Tampa is a nice bedroom community that happens to have USF within the city limitss. That’s about it. UT is downtown. More happening there because of location but that wouldn’t differentiate it from any other urban school. Again, not a lot of hype re UTampa.