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USA 50 Most Wired Universities
RANKING; UNIVERSITY; SURVEY SCORE; NOTES&COMMENTS
1_Carnegie Mellon University 89.15
With access to campuswide wireless service, students at CMU are experiencing the future of academic computing.
2_University of Delaware 88.88
To obtain an e-mail address, students must prove they're "Networthy" by passing an exam on responsible computing.
3_New Jersey Institute of Technology 88.11
Each term, a surprising 20 percent of NJIT students take online courses.
4_Indiana University, Bloomington 88.08
A Web-based service, Oncourse, automatically generates a site for each
class and a homepage for each student.
5_Dartmouth College 88.05
Since 1991, Dartmouth has required incoming freshmen to own computers, and has provided e-mail to alums for years.
6_Massechusettes Inst. of Technology 87.32
MIT is collaborating with Bill Gates and company to conduct cutting-edgeesearch on new educational technologies.
7_Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 87.15
Cable TV feeds are available in every dorm room, so you'll never miss anepisode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
8_University of Virginia 86.58
UVA's impressive list of alumns includes the CEOs of Yahoo!, Infoseek, CNET and Broadcast.com.
9_Washington State University 86.58
At Paul Allen's alma mater, online gaming is actually encouraged on weekends as an alternative to drinking.
10_University of California, Los Angeles 86.48
Students have access to real-time online academic counseling and the world's largest public-university Internet library.
11_State University of New York at Buffalo 86.48
SUNY Buffalo and Stanford University are partnering to develop the world's first "bicoastal" classroom.
12_Penn State University, University Park 86.28
Penn State's distance-learning courses cover everything from Electrical Engineering to Turfgrass Management.
13_University of Idaho 86.23
Geek life: All fraternities and sororities at UI are connected to the school's 4Gbps network backbone.
14_Rochester Institute of Technology 86.05
Launched in 1979, RIT's distance-learning program is one of the country's most comprehensive, with 200 online courses.
15_Georgia Institute of Technology 85.57
High-tech collaborations with Zoo Atlanta, such as the Virtual Gorilla Exhibit, keep Georgia Tech ahead of the wired one.
16_Drexel University 85.55
Drexel claims that in 1983 it became the first university to require students to own a personal computer.
17_Ball State University 85.24
All artwork on display at BSU's campus museum is catalogued online with detailed documentation.
18_Florida State University 85.10
FSU sponsors a nationwide contest, the Online Scholar Challenge, in which students compete for a four-year free ride.
19_Wake Forest University 84.91
Nearly all classrooms have wheelchair-accessible desks with Ethernet connections.
20_Iowa State University 84.77
A bug's life: View a live stream of the university's Insect Zoo via the popular ZooCam [zoocam.ent.iastate.edu].
21_University of Dayton 84.57
Each residence hall maintains a Web site where roommates can leave private messages for one anothers.
22_North Carolina State University 84.46
The school's virtual library shelves more than 4,000 digitized books, with more titles to come.
23_Worcester Polytechnic Institute 84.14
A new, ultrawired campus center is expected to be completed by 2001.
24_George Mason University 83.88
GMU's Center for Computational Statistics uses virtual reality to let students walk through a human brain.
25_Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State Univ. 83.88
In 1991, Virginia Tech established the Blacksburg Village, a prototype community network that spawned 14 local ISPs.
26_University of Pennsylvania 83.50
A Shakespeare Web class funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities puts the Bard's original texts.
27_Illinois Institute of Technology 83.46
Town-gown synergy: IIT provides full-service Net access to area high schools and community organizations.
28_University of Colorado at Boulder 82.60
UCB provides 160 low-income first-year students with free Dell and iMac computers.
29_New York University 82.45
In the heart of Silicon Alley, NYU's New Media Center trains dot-com digital artists and entrepeneurs.
30_Seton Hall University 82.42
SHU boasts an award-winning network and the first private campus cellular network.
31_University of Missouri, Rolla 82.40
All lab computers are replaced every three years, ensuring that obsolete PCs don't overstay their welcome.
32_University of Cincinnati 82.36
When a printer or PC conks out, students can access a 24-hour help desk.
33_Kansas State University 82.06
Polotics not as usual: at KSU, students use the Web to vote in campus elections.
34_University of Missouri, Columbia 81.99
Free instructor-led courses in Web Page Authoring, Image Design and Programming are available to all students.
35_Oregon State University 81.86
Braille printers, large-screen monitors, and special orientation are available for visually impaired students.
36_University of Texas at Austin 81.77
Last year, IT expenditures at the University of Texas topped a whopping $80 million.
37_Stevens Institute of Technology 81.77
A new intranet helps the faculty share information about such things as research, publications, and advising students.
38_Ohio State University 81.61
OSU's exemplary site offers info on everything from severe weather updates to road-construction alerts.
39_University of California, Santa Cruz 80.62
Visit UCSC's lush environs from home via the school's panoramic virtual tour.
40_University of Maryland, College Park 80.57
Surf park: Oddly, one of the school's computer labs is situated in a campus parking garage.
41_Northwestern University 80.38
NU is home to the esteemed International Center for Advanced Internet Research, which develops cutting-edge network tech.
42_University of Miami 80.36
The Hurricanes' massive sports site lets fans interact with team coaches and tune in live broadcasts of games.
43_University of Scranton 80.06
Click through Scranton's interactive sheep-brain dissection guide [academic.scranton.edu/departm
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