Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
On Tuesday, August 25, 2015, The Daily Meal, the world’s largest food and drink lifestyle site, released its fourth annual list of the 75 Best Colleges in America for Food. This year’s list featured 28 states; California led the way, placing 15 in the Top 75.
To assemble the ranking, The Daily Meal team began with a full list of about 2,000 colleges. After rigorous research and outreach to their dining services, the list was narrowed down to approximately 300 contenders. After that, the final 75 were ranked by scoring the colleges on the following criteria:
Nutrition and Sustainability: The college makes consistent efforts to ensure that its food is well-balanced as well as tasty; and that the food is healthy, not just for the students but for the environment as well.
Accessibility and Service: The college accommodates all dietary preferences, has a variety of options for students to choose from, and makes certain that the dining options are conveniently located near students’ dorms. Dining program has on-campus eateries that are open late at night; and meal plans let students purchase off-campus foods.
Education and Events: The college offers nutrition and culinary education to every student on campus and holds food-centered events to foster community and break the monotony of the dining experience.
Surrounding Area: Students have access to exciting and vast food options in the area surrounding the college that can be easily accessed. Information was compiled from Yelp to grade colleges on the quality and accessibility of all the food within a five-mile radius of the campuses.
The “X” Factor: The little extras that prove the colleges go above and beyond in their culinary creativity.
The number one ranked college…? Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.
Noted below – in ascending order – are the colleges in our general area that made the coveted 75…
69 Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
67 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
57 University of Delaware, Newark, DE
48 Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
45 Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
44 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
29 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
7 New York University, Manhattan, NY
3 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2 Columbia University, Manhattan, NY
Bon Appétit!
TAD
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