Boston vs. Cleveland: compare the cities and their sports histories – cleveland.com

While the largest universities in Cleveland are Cleveland State (16,915 students) and Case Western Reserve (11,340), Boston has several large colleges in the city or immediately outside.

They include Boston University (32,158 students), Harvard (29,652), Northeastern (19,940), Boston College (14,354), UMass at Boston (17,030), Tufts (11,137) and MIT (11,331), among others.