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Which Big Ten school has the most restaurants within a 10-minute walk?
Michigan has the most: 224 places to eat within half a mile of campus, about a 10-minute walk. Rutgers is second with 182, and Northwestern is third with 162. UCLA has the fewest, with 14.
All 18 Big Ten schools, ranked
| Rank | School | Places to eat within a 10-minute walk |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MichiganBusiest food street: Main St | |
| 2 | RutgersBusiest food street: Easton Ave | |
| 3 | NorthwesternBusiest food street: Davis St | |
| 4 | Penn StateBusiest food street: College Ave | |
| 5 | IndianaBusiest food street: Kirkwood Ave | |
| 6 | IowaBusiest food street: S Clinton St | |
| 7 | IllinoisBusiest food street: Green St | |
| 8 | NebraskaBusiest food street: O St | |
| 9 | USCBusiest food street: Figueroa St | |
| T-10 | Ohio StateBusiest food street: N High St | |
| T-10 | WisconsinBusiest food street: State St | |
| 12 | Michigan StateBusiest food street: Grand River Ave | |
| 13 | WashingtonBusiest food street: University Way NE | |
| 14 | PurdueBusiest food street: State St | |
| 15 | OregonBusiest food street: Willamette St | |
| 16 | MinnesotaBusiest food street: Washington Ave | |
| 17 | MarylandBusiest food street: Baltimore Ave | |
| 18 | UCLABusiest food street: Gayley Ave |
All 18 Big Ten universities, 2026-27. Each name opens that campus's page, with the places to eat closest to it.
How we counted
For each campus we counted the places to eat within half a mile, in a straight line from the campus. Half a mile is about a 10-minute walk.
- Places to eat — restaurants, fast-food places, cafés and casual eateries in the Overture Maps open places data (release 2026-09-23.1). Chains count the same as independents. Listings marked closed, and low-confidence listings, are left out.
- The campus — the location the U.S. Department of Education lists for each school, moved to the main campus where that point is an office away from it.
- Busiest food street — the street with the most of those places within a mile of campus.
Map data is never complete, and a new place can take a while to appear in it, so read the counts as a fair comparison between campuses rather than an exact census. More on where our data comes from.
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