High cost of living and limited services. It is these factors that penalize, together with the decline in global rankings, that make Italian university cities less and less interesting for students. The only two Italian cities present in the 2023 QS Best Student Cities they are Milan and Rome: the first is 48th, the second 74th. These are certainly not leading positions and worse than the previous ranking, very far from the first: London.
The tenth edition of the QS Quacquarelli Symonds ranking compares 140 student cities that must have over 250,000 inhabitants. The English capital has been in the lead for four editions, followed by Munich and Seoul. Zurich, Switzerland, and Australia’s Melbourne are fourth and fifth. Following are Berlin, Tokyo, Paris, Sydney and Edinburgh. In the top ten are two German cities, two from the United Kingdom and two from Australia. There are two eastern cities and two other European ones. The Americans arrive after the tenth position: Boston 11th and New York 18th. Los Angeles is in the top thirty. Canada places three in the top twenty.
To establish the ranking are the opinions of future students, but also of former university students. More than 98,000 people took part in the survey by training the Desirability index of a city made by potential future subscribers and the Voice / Opinion index of the Studentsmade by the ex.
Milan remains among the top 50 university cities in the world, but loses two positions compared to the previous survey. Rome loses five, but grows in the desirability index while Milan falls. The Lombard capital has an excellent position, however, for an important indicator linked to the labor market: it is 21st in the world for the activity of employers in terms of recruitment of recent graduates. However, Italian cities are too expensive compared to what they offer.
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London wins because it has many high-level universities and offers very high career opportunities after graduation. Ben Sowter, senior vice president of QS, according to the Sole24ore, explained: «The responses to our surveys from students who studied in London make it clear that this city offers extraordinary cultural, economic and educational opportunities. With two of the world’s top ten universities located in the city, it remains a world-leading educational hub. Worrying is the fact that, according to the QS parameters, cities are becoming less and less accessible for students, with a drop of just under 90% in our indicator “Affordability“Which measures the cost of university fees and the cost of living”.
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Source: Vanity Fair
