college towns within larger cities?

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<p>University of San Diego and Santa Clara University are both colleges in cities. Very very nice self contained campuses with cities around them.</p>

<p>What about Tufts?</p>

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<p>Cambridge,Mass. -- Harvard and MIT</p>

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<p>I'd say you go to the best example, OP.</p>

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<p>Rice University</p>

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<p>Davis is "The College Town" but you would want to grab the Bus to Sacramento or San Francisco (for extreme entertainment.) A bus runs from the campus to Berkeley which is also a college community next to one of America's favorite Cities, San Francisco. For every person who gets town fever, there are a dozen who never want to leave the place again.</p>

<p>UCLA is kind of a college town unto itself and I hear LA is just outside the gate, past Westwood.</p>

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<p>Westwood is a part of LA, so being in Westwood is being in LA. One side of campus is the Sunset Strip, while across the street is Bel Air. The only way it could be more LA would be if it were in the heart of Beverly Hills!</p>

<p>But i didn't mention it because i don't know what the poster meant by "college town." UCSD might fit the description, but something like University of Florida could be what the person means. What do you mean, OP?</p>

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<p>Actually no, one side of UCLA is not the Sunset Strip. While the northern portion of UCLA is indeed bounded by Sunset Bouldevard, it is completely residential, and pedestrian unfriendly. The Sunset Strip, though technically down the street, is not even within confortable walking distance of UCLA.</p>

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<p>No, I work near UCSD, and there is no way that La Jolla has any sort of "college town" feel to it, no matter how the OP defines it.</p>

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<p>So, coureur, how does the OP define college town?</p>

<p>Themegastud, it's nice to be technically correct, but wrong anyway.</p>

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<p>The OP defines it like this:</p>

<p>"basically, colleges/universities that have a distinct college feel around the college,"</p>

<p>And that sure ain't La Jolla. On the northern edge of UCSD campus you have the Torrey Pines industrial park and golf course. On the southern edge you have La Jolla Village Drive and some some strip malls and a shopping center. On the western edge you have some residential houses and the ocean. And on the eastern edge you have an 8-lane freeway. And none of that has any "college feel" to it.</p>

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<p>So UCSD probably doesn't fit, but what does "college feel" mean, OP channeled through coureur?</p>

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<p>I guess the best answer to this question would certainly be George*town*, located in Georgetown, Washington, DC. (That's actually a triple, since Washington is technically a part contained in the District of Columbia)</p>

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<p>Please explain how I'm wrong anyway. Saying UCLA is bounded by the Sunset Strip is wrong no matter how you look at it. I just checked a map, and the walking distance from the closest part of UCLA, the Northeast corner of UCLA of Hilgard and Sunset (which is unrealistic anyway as no housing is located at this sector of campus, though I'll use it anyway to be generous) to the very BEGINNING of the Sunset Strip (which again, is very generous as this is only the start of where Sunset Blvd. becomes commercialized, as opposed the the actual, infamous Sunset Strip) is 4.31 miles according to Google Earth. If we were to be realistic about this, and measure the distance from "the hill" to the tangible Sunset Strip like where Miyagi's is or perhaps the Viper Room, this distance would likely be 6 miles or more. </p>

<p>So it would appear that saying UCLA is bordered by the Sunset Strip is completely erroneous. Sorry to split hairs, but it's somewhat irritating to be called wrong by someone espousing completely innacurate information of their own. UCLA is in a great area and has the college town atmosphere within a big city setting more than any other university I've ever visited. But saying it's bounded by the Sunset Strip is, again, very wrong and any Los Angeleno would laugh if they heard this. </p>

<p>Operating with this faulty logic, one could claim that Market St. in San Francisco is (minus the use of the BART) within walking distance of Berkeley.</p>

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<p>well, i had UCLA in mind when i made the post, but i was trying to see what else is out there. i wasn't thinking about uc davis or the claremont colleges though. they're more like college towns NEAR larger cities, not really WITHIN. there's kind of a separation between davis/sacramento and claremont/los angeles, whereas UCLA has its own college bubble (westwood), but is right outside los angeles or is very close to a lot of los angeles attractions. i think i like how some people have used the term "bubble" to describe what i was looking for.</p>

<p>p.s. UCLA's northern boundary is sunset BOULEVARD but the "sunset strip" area is further east down sunset boulevard, and not within walking distance from UCLA.</p>

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<p>With that definition kfc4u, UCLA, Georgetown, Harvard (both the Square and Cambridge itself), NYU (Greenwich Village and the entire area around Wash Sq. Park -- and for the record, way more collegiate than Morningside Heights), U Chicago (sort of, but Hyde Park isn't nearly as student oriented as the aforementioned), Penn, and Brown.</p>

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<p>when I was in New York I walked around the Columbia, and that seemed to be like a college town within a large city (i guess I will consider NYC large). I can say UW-Madison does not have that feel to it. By far the best example of this would be Wisc-Milwaukee (Sorry I had to mention a "lower tier school"), while Marquette (also in Milwaukee) would be another bad example.....right in the middle of the bad part of the town!</p>

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<p>Oh and of course Georgetown, I visited that area like 6 years ago, and I can still remember what it looked like! I also visited my cousin at Harvard (like 4 years ago), but I must not have been paying attention...because i cannot remember anything about that school, all I remember is that it was close to some other university. (at least I thought it was, maybe BU or BC????) Actually is Harvard even in Boston or is it just close to it?</p>

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<p>UPenn is located in University City, which is a part of Philadelphia. UC has both UPenn and Drexel, lots of students around and is gentrifying rapidly...</p>

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<p>Both. Most of the Harvard campus is in Cambridge, just across the river from Boston. But parts of it (the football stadium for example) are on the the other side of the river in Boston proper.</p>

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<p>this is slightly off topic, and although columbia, penn, chicago, and nyu have been mentioned as college town bubbles, i've read previous posts elsewhere that</p>

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<li>columbia, penn, and chicago aren't in good parts of town</li>
<li>nyu's surrounding area isn't really student friendly</li>
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<p>can someone clarify this?</p>