I’m looking for colleges with a typical college campus, in a college town, but is also near NYC. (Maybe a train ride or something) I would love to go to college in the city but because of the non typical campus I do not want to. So if anybody knows a college like this please let me know thank you so much!
P.S: someone told me Hofstra but hofstra is still a sort of city college when I visited
There are many. What do you want to study? What are your stats? Budget?
Here are some reasonably close:
Drew University
Stevens
Sarah Lawrence
Wagner
Fordham (Rose Hill)
SUNY Purchase
Iona College
Fairfield University
Seton Hall University
LIU - CW Post
SUNY - New Paltz
Bard College
What are your stats and intended major and budget that could help us narrow a list down. I am thinking of a few NJ state schools like Montclair and The College of New Jersey.
College (approx. distance from Manhattan)
Connecticut College (119 mi.)
Drew (32 mil)
Lafayette (77 mi.)
Lehigh (88 mi.)
Muhlenberg (100 mi.)
Princeton (56 mi.)
Sarah Lawrence (16 mi.)
Seton Hall (23 mi.)
Vassar (77 mi.)
Wesleyan (100 mi.)
If you’re willing to expand to New Jersey there are lots of great schools with typical suburban/rural campuses there (think Princeton-style).
I don’t know how many of these can be considered to be located in a “college town”, per OP’s stated specifications, though.
The closer ones are basically in NYC suburbs, bedroom communities for commuters, that in no way can be considered college towns.
The Sarah Lawrence kids I see occasionally walking into downtown Bronxville look completely out of place there to me.
Purchase is hardly a college town, and from what I see the students don’t have much connection with Purchase at all.
I don’t think many people regard Poughkeepsie as a “college town” either.
IMO a “college town” is a place in which the college located there is a big deal to the town, and the town exists largely to support the college. Most of these places are “commuter towns”, and the colleges are incidental to the towns or exist largely on an “island” divorced from the town.
Suburbs are neither town nor city, and in many ways incorporate the worst features of both. They are precisely the communities that many college students, who previously lived their whole lives in suburbs, are trying to get away from.
Cornell, Syracuse, RPI, RIT, WPI come to mind for schools in upper NY. If it’s the “typical campus” you want, some colleges in NYC do have that feeling, such as Fordham at Rose Hill and Columbia(?). Also, why only NYC and not other major cities?
Mercy college has a train station close by that takes you straight to the city. Decent campus, as well.
Rutgers is not too far from NYC - you could probably take the train from New Brunswick. Rutgers is kind of weird - the College Ave Campus is rather urban, but Douglass and Livingston feel much more like your traditional college campus.
I second many suggestions above. Schools that I think of offhand are: Fordham -Rose Hill (in the Bronx but a gorgeous gated campus), Fairfield, Quinnipiac, Sarah Lawarence, Marist, SUNY New Paltz, Vassar, Stevens Institute (especially If you want engineering), SUNY Purchase, Hofstra (which is not in NYC, but it is in Hempstead in Long Island), Adelphi, Pace (Purchase campus), SUNY Purchase, .
I like that you want to have a traditional college campus experience. but, why center your choice around being near NYC? that is not a reason to choose or not choose a school.
Pace Pleasantville! ( not purchase, purchase is about 20 minutes away) A 30 minute car ride or an hour on the Train. Pace pleasantville also has a FREE shuttle that will take you downtown to the Pace University city campus! (My school, I’m very active in recruitment and am a tour guide so I have a ton of school spirit lol if you have any questions lmk)
Also I second New Paltz, mercy, what about LIU? And other schools in long island?
What’s your major?
SUNY Purchase has a good campus.
Looks like op has left us. As you see from all these replies, there are too many to mention. There are good choices at different academic levels and price points. You really need to give more detail about what you’re looking for in a school.
I’ll second Drew. Madison, NJ, isn’t a “college town,” per se, but it has the Fairleigh-Dickinson and St. Elizabeth campuses nearby. The campus is walking distance from the NJ Transit station, and has the NJ Shakespeare Theatre in residence. Madison has a pleasant, “walkable” downtown area, with attractive shops and restaurants. Unfortunately, Drew routinely makes the list for most expensive colleges in U.S., but they do have merit scholarships available.
Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.
“As you see from all these replies, there are too many to mention.”
I’m not sure there are any at all. OP specified that it be located in a college town.
Hoboken, NJ (where Stevens Institute is located) was ranked a Top 10 college town in the country (Princeton Review, 2012).