Impact of Location on Choosing a Graduate School

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如何选择一个从个人喜好和经济能力上适合的地点也是非常重要的。毕竟你要在那里住上4到8年的时间！学校所在的地点是否让你满意？是否离家足够近（或者远）？你的另一半是否能够接受？生活费如何？有没有可能买一所自己的房子？这些都是申请时的考虑因素。有一些网站列出了一些城市的相关信息。我们向你推荐monster.com和Moneymagazine。下面的表格中列出最好的学校所在城市的生活费用。学校根据生活费用从低到高排列。全国平均费用设为100作为参考。

Institution	Cost-of-living
Vanderbilt University	58
Baylor College of Medicine	60
University of Alabama-Birmingham	63
Duke University	66
Washington University	72
Case Western Reserve University	77
University of Pennsylvania	83
Johns Hopkins University	84
University of Texas-Southwestern	84
University of Washington	84
Yale University	88
University of Pittsburgh	90
Emory University	91
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	92
University of Chicago	96
University of Michigan	107
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center	109
University of California - Los Angeles	145
University of California - San Diego	145
University of California - San Francisco	208
Harvard University	271
Stanford University	329
Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University	413
Mount Sinai School of Medicine at New York University	413
Columbia University	413
^*来自monster.com