Disadvantages: inconvenient transportation, relatively monotonous life and poor cultural diversity.
Like Pennsylvania State, UIUC, Iowa, ISU, WVU, Cornell, Dartmouth, UC Davis, Baylor, MTU, Texas A& D, etc. M, Lehigh, these university town schools are generally characterized by this.
If you want to have the advantages of both university city schools and big city schools, you can choose some universities located in small and medium-sized cities or satellite cities around big cities, such as UMich, UC Santa Barbara, Colorado, UWisc Madison, Colorado State, BYU, Stanford, Utah, FSU, WPI, Virginia and so on.