The purpose of the University Town is explained as follows:

As a phenomenon of higher education, "university town" first appeared in some countries with developed higher education, such as Britain and America. It usually refers to the continuous expansion of the university's own scale in the process of university development. Some universities gather together, and the surrounding university or university campus itself becomes a town with a certain scale, which is usually called "University Town".

There are two main ways to form foreign university towns: one is naturally formed, such as Boston in the United States, Oxford and Cambridge in the United Kingdom, which are naturally formed after more than 100 years of history; The other is active construction, such as Charlottesville, State College, Madison and Tsukuba University Town in Japan. They were jointly built by the state, local governments, universities and enterprises with the rapid development of higher education after World War II.

Generally, a university town has at least one large comprehensive university, or some relatively small but large number of small colleges, such as arts and sciences colleges and community colleges. The local residents of the university town are generally school employees and teachers, while the number of foreign students generally exceeds that of local residents. University towns in Europe are generally proud of having ancient universities, which are not only educational and cultural centers, but sometimes become political centers because of their great social and cultural influence.

University towns in the United States are developing the fastest. Most of the top universities in the United States are located in traditional university towns (such as ann arbor, Lansing, State College, Chicago, Princeton and Palo Alto). ) or university towns in big cities (such as Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Chicago).