75 Best Colleges for Food in America for 2018

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1. Columbia University (New York, NY)

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2. Duke University (Durham, NC)

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3. University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)

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4. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)

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5. Liberty University (Lynchburg, VA)

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6. Northeastern University (Boston, MA)

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7. Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)
8. University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, MA)
9. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, VA)
10. University of Michigan — Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)

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11. Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)

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12. New York University (New York, NY)

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13. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey — New Brunswick (Piscataway, NJ)

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14. Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA)
15. University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
16. Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
17. Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA)
18. University of San Diego (San Diego, CA)
19. Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)

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20. University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
21. George Mason University (Fairfax, VA)
22. Occidental College (Los Angeles, CA)
23. Boston University (Boston, MA)

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24. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
25. Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)

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26. James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA)
27. University of Georgia (Athens, GA)

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28. University of California — Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
29. University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT)

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30. Brown University (Providence, RI)

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31. Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
32. University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
33. University of South Carolina — Columbia (Columbia, SC)
34. Yale University (New Haven, CT)
35. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
36. Pitzer College (Claremont, CA)
37. Stanford University (Stanford, CA)

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38. Miami University — Oxford (Oxford, OH)

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39. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
40. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
41. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
42. Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO)

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43. Rollins College (Winter Park, FL)
44. Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI)
45. Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)
46. Purdue University — West Lafayette (West Lafayette, IN)
47. The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

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48. Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
49. University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
50. Pennsylvania State University — University Park (University Park, PA)
51. Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA)
52. The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
53. Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
54. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

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55. The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL)
56. University of Houston (Houston, TX)
57. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
58. Roger Williams University (Bristol, RI)
59. Brigham Young University — Provo (Provo, UT)
60. Tufts University (Medford, MA)
61. University of Washington, Seattle (Seattle, WA)
62. Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
63. St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY)
64. Bob Jones University (Greenville, SC)
65. College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, ME)
66. Temple University (Philadelphia, PA)
67. Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)
68. Colby College (Waterville, ME)
69. University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA)
70. University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
71. Ohio University (Athens, OH)

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72. Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL)
73. University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
74. Denison University (Granville, OH)
75. Carleton College (Northfield, MN)

Source: The Daily Meal, 2018 (Shared with permission)

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The days of college dining halls doling out ladles full of indistinguishable mush are over (although, maybe they never really happened, and we're just thinking of teen movies from the '80s...). According to The Daily Meal, the dining halls at these schools could put most restaurants to shame, offering creative, sustainable, and, most importantly, delicious food options.