College Towns Worldwide
The college town is largely an American phenomenon, according to Blake Gumprecht, an assistant professor of geography at the University of New Hampshire; in Europe, Africa and Asia, most institutions of higher education grew together with major cities—with considerable exceptions such as Pantnagar, Aligarh, Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, Aberystwyth, St. Andrews, Coimbra, Stellenbosch, Lund, Potchefstroom, Trondheim and Heidelberg. As new institutions are increasingly founded in outlying locations to serve growing student populations, the phenomenon of the college town is recognizable worldwide. Examples of cities which University activity is having an increasingly social, cultural, technological and economical impact on their popullation are Spanish cities like Donostia-San Sebastian (Basque Country, northern Spain) and San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Tenerife, Canary Islands).
Popular American college towns include Chapel Hill, NC and Clemson, SC.
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