What city is "St. Elmo's Fire" set in?

Washington, D.C. serves as the backdrop for all seven of these gorgeous disasters, specifically around Georgetown University where the characters earned their degrees. Georgetown's Jesuit administrators took one look at Joel Schumacher's script filled with premarital sex and bad decisions and refused to let cameras anywhere near their campus. But the filmmakers packed up and drove ten miles to the University of Maryland, which apparently had fewer moral objections to Hollywood shenanigans. The St. Elmo's Bar where everyone gathered to drink away their post-graduation panic attacks was completely fictional, built on a studio lot instead of using any real D.C. watering hole. The bar's interior was inspired by The Tombs, an actual Georgetown hangout where students went to avoid studying, but even that connection was kept at arm's length.