You may not believe that we squeezed into the top twenty of the Daily Beast’s list of the smartest college towns, given the downtown bar scene and the vast majority of the students who raise their hands in lecture. But our very own College Park landed at the 19th spot in rankings, thanks to our research prowess as well as our parternships with NASA and federal departments like Homeland Security.
A "Tar Heel" allegedly "studies" on campus. We're coming for you next year, UNC.
The Daily Beast awarded College Park an overall grade of C (given that we didn’t study for this test, we’ll take it!) by crunching numbers like bachelor’s and graduate degrees per capita for the over-25 population, student SAT scores and voter turnout, an indicator of higher intelligence.
Chapel Hill took the gold, followed by Ann Arbor and Boulder, Colorado. Athens, Georgia, home to the University of Georgia, finished dead last. Other students that might want to study harder next year include the Notre Dame students living in South Bend, Indiana, which, despite boasting the second highest median SAT score, has the fewest bachelor’s degrees per capita.