Colleges In/Near Large Cities

College Search & Selection
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<p>College admissions knows no off season, and as the seniors are at the tail end of the process, the juniors are about to begin thinking seriously about what they want in a college.</p>

<p>I'm trying to put together a list of colleges that are either in or near (and by "near" I'd like to keep it to the immediate suburbs) major cities. I'm currently at a school in a city, and I must say that the city has provided me with lots of opportunities, from new restaurants to concerts to shopping to internships at law firms. </p>

<p>I've visited most of the schools that I've listed below and each has had a different feel to it. Some of these schools are extremely urban, with trains and major streets cutting through the campus; some of these schools are extremely quiet and secluded; some of these schools have a mixture of quads and bustle. I've also attempted to make this list as comprehensive as possible, in that schools are not omitted based on their selectivity or their focus.</p>

<p>I don't know every school, though, and I definitely don't know every city. I've started the list, but I need your help.</p>

<p>SCHOOLS IN/NEAR NEW YORK CITY
--Columbia
--NYU
--Barnard
--SUNY Purchase
--New School
--Manhattan College
--CUNY (Lehman College, Hunter College, Brooklyn College, etc.)
--St John's U.
--Manhattanville College
--Sarah Lawrence College
--Yeshiva University
--Fordham University</p>

<p>SCHOOLS IN/NEAR PHILADELPHIA
--Penn
--Swarthmore
--Haverford
--Bryn Mawr
--Temple
--University of the Arts
--St. Joe's</p>

<p>SCHOOLS IN/NEAR BOSTON
--Simmons
--Northeastern
--Emmanuel College
--Emerson College
--Mass Pharm
--Harvard
--MIT
--Boston U.
--Boston C.
--Wellesley
--Tufts
--Brandeis</p>

<p>SCHOOLS IN/NEAR CHICAGO
--University of Chicago
--Northwestern
--DePaul
--University of Illinois-Chicago
--Loyola University Chicago
--Columbia College Chicago
--Roosevelt University
--Robert Morris College</p>

<p>SCHOOLS IN/NEAR WASHINGTON DC
--Georgetown
--George Washington U
--American
--Howard</p>

<p>SCHOOLS IN/NEAR LOS ANGELES
--Occidental
--UCLA</p>

<p>SCHOOLS IN/NEAR PITTSBURGH
--U. Pitt
--Carnegie Mellon
--Chatham College</p>

<p>SCHOOLS IN/NEAR BALTIMORE
--Johns Hopkins
--Goucher College</p>

<p>...as you see, this list needs a lot of work!</p>

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<p>for Boston, you left off Olin but i think the rest of them are all I can think of</p>

<p>for LA, USC is the obvious omission</p>

<p>For Philly, Villanova (stretching the definition a bit, but its still "near" Philly)</p>

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<p>For Boston: Suffolk, Wentworth, MassArt, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Architectural College.
For Chicago: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
For LA: USC, Loyola Marymount</p>

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<p>Twin Cities--U of M</p>

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<p>Nova isnt that far from Philly. We're pretty much in the area. Also missing is Drexel.</p>

<p>For Pitt: Duquesne</p>

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<p>I know your post isn't meant to be exhaustive, but I think it's illustrative of many kids' viewpoint when looking at colleges -- there are east coast colleges, some colleges in California and Chicago and the rest of the country is a huge wasteland. ;)</p>

<p>If you look at other areas of the country that are not as big as a draw as the ones near you then the process becomes much less competitive. For example, how many kids from New Jersey apply to Johns Hopkins and how many apply to Rice?</p>

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<p>1) Define "large cities".</p>

<p>How large are we talking here? Where's your cutoff?</p>

<p>2) Define "near".
15 minute drive? 30? 45? one hour? 1-1/2 hours? 2 hours?
No drive, must be on train line? How long a train ride?</p>

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<p>Check out the "World cities" inventory by Loughborough University. (It's on Wikipedia--in my opinion, its methodology is pretty subjective, but interesting nonetheless.)</p>

<p>It lists America's Global/World cities as, (in order--)
*New York City (very large contribution)
*Los Angeles; San Francisco (smaller contribution w/ cultural bias)
*Boston; Chicago (incipient global cities)
*Washington, D.C. (global niche city: political)
*Miami (Worldwide leading city: economic)
*Atlanta; Denver (Worldwide leading city: non-economic)</p>

<p>In my opinion, other significant U.S. cities include: New Orleans; Houston; Dallas; San Antonio; Austin; Las Vegas; St. Louis; Philadelphia; Nashville; Baltimore; Pittsburgh; Seattle; San Jose; Salt Lake City; San Diego; Phoenix; Memphis; Detroit; Denver; Kansas City; Buffalo; Hartford/Springfield; Albuquerque; Albany, NY; Oklahoma City; Jacksonville; Milwaukee; Minneapolis/St. Paul; Ft. Lauderdale; Cleveland; Columbus; Cincinnati; Tampa/St. Petersburg, etc.</p>

<p>I'd define a 'city university' as either within the city, or in the city's nearest suburb.</p>

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<p>Twin Cities - Macalester College</p>

<p>Montreal - McGill</p>

<p>Toronto - University of Toronto</p>

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<p>for Philly, I did totally forget Drexel and Nova... for New York, NYIT, etc. so many colleges! :-)</p>

<p>blackeyedsusan-- that's exactly why I was asking for contributions for people from other parts of the country. I'm from New York, so I know of a lot of New York-area colleges, but all I know about Houston is it's a big city and that Rice is nearby. This isn't meant to be a regionally biased list, but you have to start somewhere and build up.</p>

<p>monydad-- good points. I would define a "city" as any place with a recognizable downtown area and some tourist attractions, and commerce that isn't associated with the college or university. I think JuJu's list is pretty good as a start.</p>

<p>By "near a city," I would think less than a half hour commute or so. Even though students who go to colleges in the greater New York metro area (i.e. Princeton, Marist, Vassar) live less than 2 hours from the city and could visit for a day trip, it's an occasional treat rather than a regular destination.</p>

<p>A college doesn't necessarily have to be connected to public transportation to make it "near" a city, because a lot of colleges will provide shuttles into the city if the commute is short enough.</p>

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<p>for Chicago: Wheaton College and North Central (both suburban)
for Boston: Babson (suburban)</p>

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<p>Major Colleges and Universities in Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA address):</p>

<p>Art Institute of Pittsburgh
Carlow University
Carnegie Mellon University
Chatham University
Duquesne University
La Roche College
Point Park University
Robert Morris University- Pittsburgh Campus
University Of Pittsburgh-Main Campus</p>

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<p>NYIT i really wouldnt consider to be near NYC...if you do that you have to include Hofstra, Adelphi, and a whole bunch of other schools in nassau county</p>

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<p>baltimore -
johns hopkins
UMBC
morgan state
loyola college
college of notre dame of MD
goucher
MICA
towson</p>

<p>buffalo -
university at buffalo
buffalo state college
canisius
niagara U
d'youville college</p>

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<p>By your clarificatiion scratch SUNY Purchase, which is a good 40 minutes from midtown NYC if you can find a time when there's little traffic.</p>

<p>Also, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore and Wellesley are all about one half hour from their respective cities, in possibly rare good traffic, not less than a half hour as you have specified.</p>

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Also, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore and Wellesley are all about one half hour from their respective cities, in possibly rare good traffic, not less than a half hour as you have specified.

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<p>Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr are both "inside the beltway" neighborhoods. Wellesley is just "outside the beltway" (by about a mile). We are not talking countryside, here. There's a major mall closer to the center of campus than one of the dorms.</p>

<p>The train is 26 minutes to 30th Street Station, 36 minutes to Market East Station.</p>

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<p>CHICAGO: If you mean about 60 minutes away, then NIU.</p>

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<p>IF OP wants to modify post to refer to: distance from "beltway", degree of development at the campus itself, and proximity to a major mall, OP can make these modifications and perhaps have a modified list of schools.</p>

<p>However, per inital post OP is not interested in making campus-area development a criterion:</p>

<p>"Some of these schools are extremely urban, with trains and major streets cutting through the campus; some of these schools are extremely quiet and secluded.."</p>

<p>As is, the criterion specified by OP was less than 30 minutes drive time.<br>
The drive time should figure in the "Beltway" where relevant, however if the time to get from the school to city is longer than the stated criteria, the school should fail criteria. Some "beltways' take less time to navigate than other "beltways", and driving time was the specified criterion.</p>

<p>Per #17, wherever you draw the line there will always be other schools just outside that line. So it's up to OP where to draw it. OP drew it at less than 30 minutes drive time. There will always be other schools at: 31 minutes, 36 minutes, 40 minutes, 50 minutes, one hour, two hours, etc. This will happen wherever the line is drawn, and some school just outside that line will fail the test.</p>

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<p>Me wants to add D'Youville College to the thread of Colleges With Weird Names.</p>

<p>Ok Y'all...</p>

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<p>He's done interesting work regarding cities and creativity:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.creativeclass.org/author.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.creativeclass.org/author.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>