Intel Corporation: www.intel.com
Intel's 2nd annual "Most Unwired Cities" survey ranks the top 100 U.S. cities and regions for the greatest wireless Internet accessibility. This year, the survey has been expanded to include a look at the most unwired college campuses in the nation. You can also see the Most Unwired Airports.
Intel's "Most Unwired College Campuses" survey ranks the top 100 schools for wireless computing access. The survey reveals a growing number of schools across the country where students have the freedom to wirelessly access the Internet on notebook PCs - without a traditional wired connection - and stay connected and informed whether they're in the dorm room, library or outdoors at the campus quad.
Below is a snapshot of the schools that made the grade:
1. Indiana University - Bloomington (Bloomington, Ind.)
2. Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind.)
3. The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas)
4. Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland)
5. Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.)
6. Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh)
7. University of Akron (Akron, Ohio)
8. Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Mich.)
9. American University (Washington, D.C.)
10. St. John's University (New York)
11. Colorado College (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
12. Albertson College (Caldwell, Idaho)
13. CUNY - Queens College (New York)
14. University of California-Irvine (Irvine, Calif.)
15. University of Southern California (Los Angeles)
16. University of California-Riverside (Riverside, Calif.)
17. Tulane University (New Orleans)
18. University of Miami (Miami)
19. Boston College (Boston)
20. Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa)
21. Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, Calif.)
22. Drexel University (Philadelphia)
23. University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore)
24. Howard University (Washington, D.C.)
25. SUNY College at Geneseo (Geneseo, N.Y.)
26. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston)
27. College of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.)
28. University of Dayton(Dayton, Ohio)
29. Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.)
30. SUNY at Buffalo (Buffalo, N.Y.)
31. Clemson University (Clemson, S.C.)
32. Baylor University (Waco, Texas)
33. University of Idaho (Moscow, Idaho)
34. Northwestern University (Evanston/Chicago, Ill.)
35. University of Vermont (Burlington, Vt.)
36. Pepperdine University (Malibu, Calif.)
37. University of Hawaii-Manoa (Manoa, Hawaii)
38. University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Wash.)
39. James Madison University (Harrisonburg, Va.)
40. Syracuse University (Syracuse, N.Y.)
41. SUNY at Binghamton (Binghamton, N.Y.)
42. College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Va.)
43. Elon University (Elon, N.C.)
44. Alfred University (Alfred, N.Y.)
45. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (Baltimore)
46. Creighton University (Omaha, Neb.)
47. Kansas State University (Manhattan, Kan.)
48. Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, Pa.)
49. Arizona State University (Tempe, Ariz.)
50. University of Missouri-Columbia (Columbia, Mo.)
51. West Virginia University (Morgantown, W.Va.)
52. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
53. Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis)
54. Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.)
55. Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pa.)
56. Shenandoah University (Winchester, Va.)
57. Earlham College (Richmond, Ind.)
58. Siena Heights University (Adrian, Mich.)
59. Webb Institute (New York)
60. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Mass.)
61. The University of Tulsa (Tulsa, Okla.)
62. Clark University (Worcester, Mass.)
63. University of Florida (Gainesville, Fla.)
64. University of Georgia (Athens, Ga.)
65. Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.)
66. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
67. University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyo.)
68. Stanford University (Palo Alto, Calif.)
69. Harvard University (Boston)
70. Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park, Calif.)
71. Seton Hall University (South Orange, N.J.)
72. Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio)
73. Smith College (Northhampton, Mass.)
74. Trinity University (San Antonio)
75. Barnard College (New York)
76. St. Bonaventure University (St. Bonaventure, N.Y.)
77. Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.)
78. Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.)
79. Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, Pa.)
80. Washington and Lee University (Lexington, Va.)
81. Davidson College (North Carolina, N.C.)
82. Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.)
83. Reed College (Portland, Ore.)
84. Stephens College (Columbia, Mo.)
85. Emory University (Atlanta)
86. The Evergreen State College (Olympia, Wash.)
87. The University of Scranton (Pennsylvania)
88. College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University (St. Joseph/Collegeville, Minn.)
89. University of Missouri-Rolla (Rolla, Mo.)
90. Gonzaga University (Spokane, Wash.)
91. University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, Wis.)
92. University of Washington (Seattle)
93. University of Utah (Salt Lake City)
94. University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Amherst, Mass.)
95. Boston University (Boston)
96. University of South Carolina Columbia (Columbia, S.C.)
97. CUNY - Hunter College (New York City)
98. Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, N.Y.)
99. University of New Hampshire (Durham, N.H.)
100. Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta)
The survey was sponsored by Intel Corporation and conducted by Bert Sperling, a researcher who specializes in collecting and analyzing data for the nationally known "Best Places" surveys.
The "Most Unwired College Campuses" survey findings are based on the number of hotspots, the number of undergraduates, number of computers and the computer to student ratio. The results were also based on the percentage of each college campus that is covered by wireless technology. The data was collected from university interviews and documents, and a variety of industry sources. A baseline of 100 college campuses was compiled in part from analysis of “America’s Most Connected Campuses,” conducted by Princeton Review and published in Forbes.
Publish Date:
07-01-2004
