Due to its location in the heart of Manchester, the largest city in northern New England, UNH Manchester is within a 30-minute drive of more than half of New Hampshire's population. Many of the college's students commute to campus from towns inside the Manchester-Nashua metro area, which as of 2013 had a total population of 403,895. Manchester itself has a city population of 110,378 (2013) and an urban area population of 158,377 (2013). Home to ten colleges and universities and more than 10,000 post-secondary students, Manchester was rated, in 2015, one of the "Five Coolest College Towns in New England" by "Campus News".