Top 10 list of Most Wired Colleges & Universities in the United States

PC Mag teamed up with the Princeton Review to find the most connected, plugged-in and the most high tech campuses in the United States.

Although certain aspects of the college experience will probably never change—slob roommates, all-night cram sessions, painful Jägermeister-induced lessons—the 21st century campus is a very different place. Students can stay connected wirelessly anywhere on campus, post ride requests and bikes for sale on the virtual bulletin board, listen to lectures via podcast, and store their psych papers in their own online storage repository. What was ridiculed in Revenge of the Nerds is now the definition of cool.

Obviously, not all campuses are made equal. There are certain schools that strive to provide the best technology for students. So, here is the list of the best schools which offer their students a high-tech environment to prepare for the real world. If you wanted to see how the survey was done, check out Top Wired Colleges: Methodology. Also, here is a list of all the 240 schools that completed the survey.

So, if you are scouting colleges for yourself or your children, check out this list below

#20 . University Of Virginia

#19. Pomona College

#18. Eckerd College

#17. Stanford University

#16. Stevens Insitute of Technology

#15. Temple University

#14. Clarkson University

#13. St. John’s University

#12. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

#11. United States Military Academy

#10. University of Oklahoma

#9. Quinnipiac University

#8. University of Southern California

#7. Michigan Tech University

#6. University of Illinois

#5. Creighton University

#4. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

#3. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

* Wow Factor: Houses the nations fastest University Owned Supercomputer, which is open to any student with an appropriate project.

* Online Portal OnCourse allows students to check grades and scheduling information.

* Tuition: InState $6,291 / Out of State $18,687 

#2. M.I.T, Cambridge, Massachussetts

Highlights:

* Fully Wireless Campus. MIT has about 3000 wireless access points, making it one of the largest geographic entitites served by a single wireless network.

* Wow Factor: Open CourseWare: MIT makes the course materials that are used in the teaching of almost all MITs undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the web, free of charge, for any user anywhere in the world.

* Tech Freedom: Students use their own OS called Athena. Also full customization of dorm rooms including a fully automatic emergency pizza button, LED scrolling instead of traditional erase boards and a door unlocking system.

* Tuition : $33,400 per year

#1. Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania

Highlights:

* Tech Gear: New laptops for freshmen and Juniors.Nursing students receive PDAs and Engineering Students receive Tablet PCs, all included in the tuition. 

* State of the art trading floor which also serves as a classroom for business students who manage an actual mutual fund.

* Wow factor: Most schools use Blackboard for online coursework. At Villanova, you can download lectures. If you need to contact a fellow student from one of the classes, they can call up an online album with photos and contact information for each student in that class.

* Tuition: $28,760 per year

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