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Penn 1st in Transportation Ranking

The University of Pennsylvania received a perfect score of 100 from the D.C.-based TransitScreen, a software company that compiled a ranking of the country’s most transportation-friendly university campuses. Schools were judged based on quick and easy accessibility to buses, trains, taxis, bike share programs and ridesharing services.

TransitScreen conducted the study by analyzing the country’s top 50 universities, according U.S. News & World Report’s list. With its MobilityScore platform, the service determined mobility grades (on a scale of 1 to 100) from each school’s student union building. They examined whether students could access bikes or trains from this central campus location for the sake of consistency, particularly for those campuses that are spread out in a city. The study did not include private university shuttles and only looked at accessibility to public transportation.

The top ten list includes:

University of Pennsylvania: 100
New York University: 100
Columbia University: 98
University of California – Berkeley: 96
Harvard University: 95
Boston University: 90
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor: 89
University of California – Los Angeles: 85
Carnegie Mellon University: 82
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 77

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