Currently a junior in high school and obviously, due to COVID, I’m not able to visit colleges. NYU is my absolute dream school and is one of the only schools I’ve visited (not even a proper college tour, but absolutely loved the “campus” and overall energy). I was wondering what colleges were similar in terms of “vibe.” My only requirement I have at the moment (which isn’t at all set in stone) is not MA colleges- I’m trying to get somewhat far away from home.
If by “vibe” you mean the energy of being an integrated part of the city, my daughter loved that about NYU too (she didn’t really like any of the traditional campus schools we visited). Similar schools she liked in the sense of not proper campus but part of the city, were Boston U (sorry it’s in MA!), George Washington in DC, and the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham in NYC (although this last campus is pretty small and self contained, it is in a great part of NYC). What works for you will also partly depend on what you want to major in - GWU is better for some majors than others, and Lincoln Center doesn’t offer all the majors available at Fordham.
George Washington,McGill, BU and Northeastern (sorry). U. of Michigan, U of Chicago, Minnesota, Washington, USC or UCLA, U of Texas Austin, U of Penn, Tulane, Brown, Columbia or, if you are female, Barnard, Yale, Harvard, Tufts…???
USC is not in a great part of LA and not really integrated with it. Occidental College I think is in a better part of LA.
Ann Arbor is not really like NYC. I wouldn’t think if UMich as a school like NYU.
I agree with Univ of Minnesota and Univ of Washington for city vibe. Also McGill and Univ of Toronto.
Univ of Pittsburgh is a nice urban campus and the students use the city.
Tulane?
Univ of Cincinnati
Univ of Chicago if you are a top student?
Clearly, you prefer an urban setting. Vibe probably differs by major. Theatre majors & business majors have different NYU experiences.
European, Canadian, & Australian universities (located in Sydney & Melbourne) may offer an NYU type vibe.
McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada;
University of Toronto, University of British Columbia;
German universities; universities in Spain; University of Edinburgh, Scotland;
University of St. Andrews (Scotland);
University of Vienna, Austria;
& University College London, may be attractive to you.
University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, South America is another to consider.
Boston University, but it is, of course, located in Massachusetts which is your home state.
UCLA & UCal-Berkeley.
St. Andrews? A vibe like NYU?
ROTFL
It depends upon what aspect or aspects of NYU the OP likes.
For other schools in the US, consider the College of Charleston, the University of Pittsburgh, University of Central Florida, the University of Miami, the University of South Florida, Arizona State University, the University of Pennsylvania.
seriously, @Publisher?! StA’s is super integrated with… a remote town of 16,000 people- the student body increases the population by 50%! NYU alone has 26K undergrads.
I’m off to rotfl with @Tigerle!
McGill has a very urban vibe and unlike NYU it has a real campus in the middle of downtown.
Again, depends upon what aspect is most attractive to OP. So @collegemom3717, yes, seriously. LOL
Interesting that the suggestion of St. Andrews seems to offend a couple of posters. I know many students who targeted NYU & St. Andrews.
P.S. Just checked the Fiske Guide To Colleges 2020 for the University of St. Andrews overlap schools which include NYU.
The University of St. Andrews overlap schools according to the University of St. Andrews as supplied to the Fiske Guide editors are:
Georgetown
Brown
NYU
Columbia
Tufts
Harvard
McGill
Yale.
This also seems like a good list of schools for OP to consider.
GW might represent the most evident suggestion.
With respect to a school of moderate selectivity, research Syracuse.
Not offended- just surprised!
StAs is a great school, but the student experience is so dramatically different than being in a city that it’s hard to imagine that a student who is thrilled by NYC in pretty much any dimension would find that ‘vibe’ in a small town in the far reaches of Scotland. W&M, with whom StAs does a dual degree program is porous to Williamsburg (similar population to StAs town) and I don’t see anybody suggesting it as an alternative ‘NYU vibe’. Re: Fiske, two schools can be ‘peer’ schools and have dramatically different vibes…
(and sorry, @Publisher- I hadn’t seen your reply to @Tigerle when I posted)
My impression is that St Andrews is a popular one on those lists because it is supposedly a much easier target for Americans than many other UK unis. I have to agree, i don’t think anyone who’s been there would put it in the same “vibe” category as NYU. Edinburgh maybe, for an urban setting with good access to arts and culture, though the city itself is obviously much smaller than NYC (I love Edinburgh so I’m always going to be biased about this one though). London schools are a good addition if OP is looking that far afield, again depending on selectivity and major - UCL, LSE, KCL, Imperial, SOAS are all centrally located… but there are enough US schools on the list?
Why did you say females for
How come you commented Bernard, Yale, Harvard, Tufts if female? Are they gender imbalanced?
@LizVA: By considering context, “if you are female” pertains only to Barnard in that comment. Think something like, “Brown, Columbia (or, if you are female, Barnard), Yale . . . ?”
Columbia (and Barnard) is an urban university, but it doesn’t really have the same “vibe” as NYU. NYU is a very “you’re part of the fabric of New York” kind of university: the buildings are dispersed through Greenwich Village; the students really get out into the city on the weekends and weeknights; Washington Square Park is like their quad…NYU students really sometimes feel like commuter students who just happen to live in the same city (and actually, a good proportion ARE that).
Columbia very much has a campus feel. You can go enjoy New York whenever you want to, but Morningside Heights is a very residential neighborhood, and most of the nightlife and cool funky shops and stuff is a 20-30+ minute subway ride away. Columbia’s buildings are mostly on a campus with an actual quad, and you can see students changing classes at certain times and hanging out doing very student things. I went to an LAC with an actual campus (in a different large city) and it felt like just a bigger version of that, not an urbanized university.
Personally, I loved it. I loved that Columbia felt like a little oasis but when I walked a few blocks in any direction, I was in the city. I loved that I could walk around campus any time at night and feel at home, and safe, but some of the most famous institutions in the world were just a subway ride away. But if you want that university-melds-with-the-city feel NYU has…Columbia doesn’t really have that.
I wonder if some posters are confusing NYU’s “vibe” with that of NYC’s vibe.
Again, it depends upon what aspect of NYU’s vibe one is seeking. Many are attracted to the international focus and atmosphere which is also found at St. Andrew’s in Scotland–a school with lots of international students which is also well respected for study in foreign languages and in international relations. And in this respect St. Andrews & NYU share a similar vibe.
If one thinks that NYU’s vibe is a theatre vibe or just about a large student body integrated into a large major city/urban area, then other schools may share a similar vibe to NYU.
Different posters will see different issues. Clearly, some posters think that all applicants attracted to NYU share the same reason for applying. This is just not true.
In a way this is a bit of an issue spotting exercise since the OP shared so little information as to what attracts him or her to NYU. In my view & in my experience, there are several reasons that may prompt one to be attracted to NYU. It simply is not limited to attending school in a major urban area although that aspect may be attractive to many or most applicants. Type of student and focus of the school are certainly other “vibes” which attract many to NYU. And NYU & St. Andrews share many of these qualities.
Just googled University of St. Andrews to find info. on total student population.
Read just one article which addressed my concern. The same article notes that a survey done by St. Andrews of their applicants indicates that the most common overlap schools are “…the Ivies, NYU, and Berkeley”.
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a10274881/st-andrews-scotland/
You have to be aware of your surroundings at USC – as at any urban school – but it’s in an interesting area with a lot to do and see. Additionally, the completion of the light rail has made it way easier to get to many of the nice parts of LA (the beach, WeHo, the Getty, the Last Bookstore and other stuff downtown, etc.) from USC than Oxy.
The completion of the subway expansion will make USC’s location even better. That’ll be a while, though.
“UCLA & UCal-Berkeley.”
I don’t want to keep pouring on, but these campuses are nothing like NYU, and I’ve been to all three. One of the things NYU doesn’t have is really a quad, most the schools on this list have one or something close to it.