
While you’ll see college towns broken out by population later in this article, these three sections combined data from all 100 schools on our list. We’ve also included the locations with the slowest speeds. By choosing a school in a town with great internet speeds, you’re giving yourself access to the fastest streaming and gaming experiences (and good performance for any online classes to boot). If you started your college search by looking for the top of the top, you’ll relate to the next three sections that highlight the college towns with the fastest speeds on 5G, all mobile technologies combined, and fixed broadband. College towns with the best (and worst) internet speeds You can also start your college life on a responsible note by using our new Speedtest Performance Directory™ to check out expected speeds for internet service providers before you sign up for an extended contract. If you’d like to see your school on the list next year, please take a Speedtest® then send your result to us via Twitter or Facebook.

While we worked to include a wide variety of college towns on our list, the list is far from comprehensive. This list includes Speedtest Intelligence® data on median download and upload speeds from 100 towns with a large percentage of students where college is a major part of the industry.

To help you know if the internet will be a help or a hindrance as you earn your degree, we analyzed internet performance in 100 college towns across the U.S. It’s back to school time in the United States, and for many freshmen that means traveling to a brand new town to start your education.
