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Sun May 4, 7:40 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Learning lofty ideas, engaging in philosophical debate and cramming for a career-making degree may be job No. 1 for students, but the New York University campus is also a place to develop fashion sense.

Or so says Women's Wear Daily, which on Thursday honored New York University as the most fashionable college in the United States.

The influential fashion newspaper lauded movie star Woody Allen's Greenwich Village alma mater for showing off the fashion stylings of "artists, business types, skaters, punks, hippies and bookworms."

"The sidewalks are like catwalks," the magazine quoted one New York University freshman as saying.

Coming in second was Washington's Howard University, where students "have an air of confidence, a sense of where they're going."

Third place went to Texas' Southern Methodist University, where "students can recite the names of the city's newest boutiques as easily as any local style editor," the magazine said.

In its first ranking of colleges, the magazine said the university population is essential to the fashion industry.

"Already boasting considerable discretionary dollars, the demographic comprises the premier consumers of the near future," wrote Executive Editor Bridget Foley. "From its ranks will come a new wave of industry leaders, both creative and business-oriented."