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Fifty percent of Macalester students volunteer in the Twin Cities. Visit the Civic Engagement Center for more information. |
 Grand Avenue, which extends east and west from campus, is home to 46 restaurants, two bookstores, three bakeries, two grocery stores and two art galleries as well as a variety of shops and services.
 "Whether it's theater, shopping, outdoor recreation, dining, or museums, the Twin Cities has the best of it."
-Smart Money |
Everything you need to know about the Twin Cities
• Ranks 4th as a college destination, only Boston/Cambridge,
D.C. and the San Francisco Bay area rank higher.
• Home to 3 million people, 15th largest metro area in the U.S. Smaller than New York, larger than San Diego, St. Louis and Denver.
• Ranks number one as the world’s most “knowledge
competitive” region by Robert Huggins Associates,
a United Kingdom international research company.
• 58 professional and community live-performance theaters, 30 museums, 51 night clubs, 949 lakes and 40,000 acres of parkland.
• Only New York City has more theater seats per capita.
Time magazine ranked the Children’s Theater
the best in the country. Theatre de la Jeune Lune received
a 2005 Tony Award.
• Home to more than 20 colleges and universities
• Ranked 2nd as “coolest community for young
talent” by Next Generation Consulting.
• Home to five professional sports teams including the Vikings, Twins, Timberwolves, Wild and Lynx.
• One of the largest Native American populations in the U.S., the Tibetan population is the second largest in the U.S., after New York City; the Somali, Hmong and Liberian population is the largest in the U.S.
• Average number of sunny days each year is 250.
• Ranked among the top 55 world cities by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network (GaWC), as a world class city in a group that includes Barcelona, Berlin, Kuala Lumpur, and Buenos Aires.
• Host of the 2008 Republican National Convention.
• The leader in the medical devices industry, according to Milken Institute’s Life Sciences Index
• The Green Guide ranks St. Paul 4th in the nation on air quality, electricity use, green space, recycling and water quality.
• Named 3rd in Esquire magazine’s “Cities
that Rock” list.
• Home to the largest enclosed mall in the country, the Mall of America.
• More theaters than Boston, more parks than Denver, more golfers per capita than any other city in America—and with over 10,000 lakes in the state, Minnesota has more coastline than California, Florida and Hawaii combined.
• Seattle and Montreal, London and Berlin and even Paris are all nearer to the Arctic Circle than the Twin Cities.
• The first open heart surgery and the first successful
bone-marrow transplant were performed in the Twin Cities.
The pacemaker was invented here.
• The Omnitheater at the Science Museum of Minnesota was the first convertible IMAX dome theater in the nation.
• Prairie Home Companion, first broadcast from Macalester College, is now heard each week from Minnesota Public Radio in downtown St. Paul.
• Famous Minnesotans: Prince, Bob Dylan, Al Franken,
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Charles Lindbergh, Charles Schulz, Walter
Mondale, Paul Wellstone, Winona LaDuke and Ann Bancroft.
• Home to one of the nation’s 12 Federal Reserve Banks.
• Minneapolis is number 3 on Frommer’s list of “places not to be missed in 2007,” behind Krakow and Tokyo. (Frommer’s Travel Guides)
• The Guthrie Theater named one of “the 10 most important buildings of the 21st century” by GQ magazine.
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