No mention of Northwestern. While not always ranked super high on USNWR, its full to the gunnels of smart people that sometimes stay in the city. Although in my experience, if they are into startups rather than HFT/corporate gigs, they just pick up and move. Culturally its just not as friedly for new enterprises. When you tell someone you quit your job to start a company, they look at you like you are crazy, as if you didn't already know that.