<p>Here is a list of the best college towns, out of those I’ve been to (which, not to brag, includes almost all of them). Colleges and towns are listed, because colleges are located in different areas of each city - for example, NYU is in a good college town but Columbia is in a remote, boring one.</p>
<p>Out of these, I’d say Madison takes the cake.</p>
<p>East
Greenwich Village/Union Sq.-NYU, Parsons, New School, others
Downtown New Haven-Yale
Northampton-Smith College
Kenmore Sq.-BU
Burlington-UVM</p>
<p>South
Auburn-Auburn
Athens-UGA
Charlottesville-UVA
Chapel Hill-UNC (I think this one is a bit overrated, but it deserves to be here nonetheless, if only for the chocolate pecan pie at MD’s).
Charleston and Savannah-SCAD/Col of Charleston (these are a stretch, but the towns are so cool to walk around that I had to include them).</p>
<p>West
Westwood-UCLA
Bozeman-Montana
Boulder-Colorado
Austin-UT-Austin</p>
<p>Midwest
Madison-UW
Ann Arbor-UM
Columbus-Ohio State (underrated)</p>