<p>Hello! I am looking for a college that is very close to the beach/shore. Preferrably on the east coast. Any colleges would be helpful because i am having a hard time finding anything. Thankkkksss</p>
<p>There are a lot, but here's one not a lot of people think of, UNC-Wilmington is about 5 miles from Wrightsville Beach, NC.</p>
<p>please see the current "College Search" string "location of college" started by "wrangler1". There I have listed a number of candidate colleges off the top of my head. There certainly must be several more, in the SE alone</p>
<p>UC Santa Barbara</p>
<p>College of Charleston, UC Santa Cruz</p>
<p>U of South Carolina - Coastal Carolina. It is about 15 minutes from the beach and a lot of the kids who go to school there live in Myrtle Beach</p>
<p>There is another thread on this. People suggested beaches on Lake Michigan as well as the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. Eckerd College is right on the Gulf of Mexico.</p>
<p>University of California at San Diego.</p>
<p>There are so many scenic costal schools in the east....you might want to be more specific. That said, try these:</p>
<p>University of Miami, USF, Salve Regina, Christopher Newport, Flagler College, Eckerd, Roger Williams.</p>
<p>My niece lived at the beach while attending Flagler in St. Augustine, FL.</p>
<p>University of Miami (30 minutes, but it IS south beach)
Florida International U (also 30-35 minutes, but, dude, it is freakin south beach)</p>
<p>Monmouth, NJ</p>
<p>SUNY Stony Brook 5 minutes from West Meadow Beach, 30 minutes to Smith Point / Fire Island.</p>
<p>Hofstra 15 minutes to Jones Beach.</p>
<p>UCSD, UCSB, Pepperdine, Point Loma are on or parts of their campus' are litterely on the ocean. USD, USF, UC Santa Cruz are near the ocean, but not on it.</p>
<p>There's also SUNY Stony Brook - South Hampton. This is the first academic year after Long Island University closed its South Hampton campus. My understanding is that Stony Brook is investing a lot of money to refurbish and revamp the buildings. </p>
<p>The campus is on the southside of Route 27 with close access to the South Hampton beaches, and an easy drive to the other beaches of the Hamptons.</p>
<p>Northwestern. It owns two private beaches on campus!</p>
<p>University of Miami has a closer beach than South Beach. It's about 15-20 minutes to Key Biscayne beach.</p>
<p>New College of Florida, I believe.</p>
<p>Plenty of beaches in Madison, but for the most part the water is for sailing on and looking at not for going in.</p>
<p>Brother and his wife both went to Florida Tech in Melbourne - scheduled classes around prime beach time....</p>