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Universities are finding increasingly creative and expensive means of attracting would-be students, and state-of-the-art recreation centers are at the top of that wish list.
Aggregator site College Consensus recently published its list of the top-50 American university rec centers, which utilizes various data sets to determine which facilities go above and beyond students' expectations.
"There was a time not so long ago that campus recreation was pretty limited, but that is no longer the case," College Consensus Managing Editor Carrie Sealey said in a media release. "For many colleges, campus recreation is central to the mission and branding of the institution. At some schools, you'd be hard pressed to guess whether you were at a university or a luxury resort, but all of this luxury has a very real purpose....