The 10 Best Student Cities In The World

What is the best city in the world for a student? Is it a place where you can find a cheap meal or meet other students? Or both!

QS World Rankings has determined the best student cities in the world. Paris, France topped the list with London in the United Kingdom coming in second.

OS made their list using, a "complex set of measures taken from public information, surveys and data submitted."

For more information, check out the full list at QS World Rankings. Then tell us, what is your favorite city? Weigh in below!

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[MightyRavendark]

11:22 PM on 02/19/2012

Cape Town.

[az0th]

04:55 AM on 02/18/2012

NYC of course.

[mira chancleta]

10:01 AM on 02/20/2012

Is there any other place on the planet?
Of course not, my precious.

[Rstaylor92]

07:05 PM on 02/28/2012

they snuffed us!

[hopein2012]

10:25 PM on 02/17/2012

Barcelona

[Capncuster]

02:17 PM on 02/17/2012

Eugene, OR should be on the list if only for the free availability of choice bud.

[mira chancleta]

10:03 AM on 02/20/2012

..and an abundance of bandana-wearing Golden Retrievers named Ezekiel and babies named Bryce Morgan

[Capncuster]

01:09 PM on 02/20/2012

And Grateful Dead fans standing on your front lawn before concerts holding their hands out for free tickets saying, "I need a miracle, man!"

[Arrech]

01:02 PM on 02/17/2012

Paris, mon amour....

[Bluedanube]

12:53 PM on 02/17/2012

What??? No Tuscaloosa, Alabama?

[48thGuy]

09:55 AM on 02/21/2012

Indeed, my friend Indeed! Everything else pales in comparison.

[Alan Bloom]

12:37 PM on 02/17/2012

Paris and London are "Tourist Expensive;" costs for students, who don't stay in hotels, eat at expensive resturants, and go to lots of West End shows are much lower. Our son went to the Royal College of Music in London, the total cost was much lower (counting the cost of three round trips home per year, housing, meals, tuition, supplies and a student transit card) than tuition and personal transportation alone at University of Southern California, a local university. The added value of going abroad, experiencing different cultures is a plus that should not be ignored.

[caland]

12:52 PM on 02/17/2012

What was the overall cost?

[Ras137]

01:43 PM on 02/17/2012

Yeah USC is a PRIVATE COLLEGE. It's a lot more expensive to go there than UCLA (which a better school).

[mira chancleta]

10:05 AM on 02/20/2012

USC is the migration destiny of every Tinsel Town producer's ne'er-do-well mediocre spawn...money is all that is needed to gain "admission" and a coke habit.

[Oceras]

12:24 PM on 02/17/2012

Paris and London, sure. But no New York City in the top 10! Students are in college to learn and there are is not other place that has as many learning opportunities outside of college than NYC. From museums to botanic gardens to the U.N. extracurricular learning opportunities abound. But I guess learning resources aren't important when going to college. (sarcasm)

[josechan1]

12:20 PM on 02/17/2012

The schools in Boston are great....but its a WICKED expensive place to live!

[Craig Koebelin]

02:17 PM on 02/17/2012

If you live in Allston with 6 or 8 roommates, it's fine.

[hopein2012]

10:26 PM on 02/17/2012

that is why it is nice to have a trust fund

[Sandmanj]

12:17 PM on 02/17/2012

Why are small towns small?

Because almost no one wants to live there.

[heymack]

12:12 PM on 02/17/2012

cheap?  lol.  I don't think any of these cities are cheap so they are great for students fortunate enough to live off the parental teet.

[whyus]

11:53 AM on 02/17/2012

Portland, Oregon.

[mira chancleta]

10:07 AM on 02/20/2012

...and you always earn money in their porn industry on the side

[whyus]

01:28 PM on 02/20/2012

Oh yes, of course, like it doesn't exist any where else!

[simsum]

11:39 AM on 02/17/2012

Anybody recognize the campus in the Boston photo?

[josechan1]

12:18 PM on 02/17/2012

BC?

[Chris-in-Deutschland]

12:34 PM on 02/17/2012

Yeah, it's BC just off the Quad looking at Higgins Hall. Must be an old picture because during my final year there they put up some obnoxious statue of St. Ignatius on the Higgins Green...

[simsum]

06:12 PM on 02/18/2012

Thanks J.

[grod805]

11:37 AM on 02/17/2012

All this time I thought the Athens of America was Athens, Georgia.

[hopein2012]

10:27 PM on 02/17/2012

lol UGA! Go Dawgs!

[ontheman]

11:29 AM on 02/17/2012

Richmond, VA. Inexpensive to live there; two universities, one of which is one of the coolest arts universities in the world, VCU.

[heymack]

12:14 PM on 02/17/2012

My oldest graduated from VCU and still lives in Richmond because it is such a great city and the cost is so low to live there.  Richmond is one of the most underrated cities in the country for just about everything.

BTW, VCU is not only a great "Arts" University but a great "just about everything" school.  Their curriculum is wide and varied and first rate not to mention one of the great medical school in the country.

[ontheman]

05:27 PM on 02/17/2012

All true...