<p>Colgate doesn't seem easy for anyone to get to, but especially for those from the other side of the Mississippi. How does everyone get to campus? Do you use the Syracuse Airport? Or is there another airport for nonstop flights then a shuttle, bus, train?</p>
<p>Syracuse airport then get the shuttle.</p>
<p>By the way, and while many Colgate students have cars, you will find that enrolled students and staff will visit
NY City using Amtrak via the Utica train station. This takes just over 5 hours and the station is about 50 minutes from Colgate. There is also regular Short Line bus service from the Colgate campus to NYC and many other destinations. </p>
<p>SYR is the nearest commercial airport and it’s about 1 hour away. (Hamilton, NY has its own private airport, in case you were wondering about those smaller planes passing over town and near campus.)</p>
<p>At holiday periods, Colgate runs student bus charters to northeastern US cities.</p>
<p>Hmmm… seems like a tough journey for an 18-year-old from the West Coast.</p>
<p>Maybe, but lots do it. The second largest student grouping is from California, after NY state.</p>
<p>It can be done Living61. My ds does it and he is international.</p>
<p>Moneyp, does he fly in and out of Syracuse?</p>
<p>Yes, with all the connecting flights/layovers…he lands in Syracuse after 24 hours from place of departure.</p>
<p>moneyp,</p>
<p>24 hours plus! Where does your son live that requires such a long journey?</p>
<p>I am in Europe now and my next visit to Colgate takes me to JFK and then SYR for Colgate in 12 hours total.</p>
<p>Safe (and calm) travels!</p>
<p>@markham.
We live in Asia. 5 hours flight to Tokyo, stopover for 2 hours, 16 hours to Chicago/New York/Detroit/Minneapolis (depending on which airline was taken), stopover for about 1.5 to 4 hours, 3/4 hour to 2 hour flight to Syracuse (depending on how far the airline’s hub to Syracuse is). Then 1 hour shuttle van/car ride to Hamilton.</p>
<p>Moneyp,</p>
<p>Yes, that’s truly long haul! And it makes a commute from California just that- a commute.</p>
<p>FYI, and it may be good news to you and your son, but a pho restaurant will open in Hamilton next to the movie theatre this month and it will be called Noodles13 after Colgate’s lucky number.</p>
<p>Regards!</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. That is something to look forward to.</p>
<p>No question that Colgate is not easy to get to from the western half of the country, but also from the South and other far away places. But that’s true of many, many colleges. And it’s the same for easterners who want to attend Claremont, Scripps, or many other colleges on the West Coast. There just aren’t as many top colleges on the West Coast that are outside major urban areas, so you don’t hear about problem going east to west as much as going the other4 way. </p>
<p>If you attend any college outside of a major or medium-sized city (one with its own airport), you’re going to have quite a haul getting there and getting home. But, consider this. If you lived in Los Angeles but attended Stanford, you’d more than likely drive back and forth. It’s about a six-hour drive. Or you could fly, but that’s an hour before the flight, an hour and a half in the air, and maybe an hour after the flight, so 3-4 hours minimum – or 6 hours driving. Either way, it’s most of a day to go home or back to school. And this is still remaining inside one (large) state. </p>
<p>If you lived in New York, but attended Bowdoin, Bates, Colby or Oberlin or some other small college, you’d have either a ten hour drive (one of my brothers regularly drove from Connecticut to Ohio Wesleyan which had to be at least ten hours in the car) or a long flight with a lot of driving before and after. </p>
<p>I had a friend when I attended Colgate decades ago who was from Hawaii! His “commute” to campus after every vacation was to fly from Hawaii to Chicago or somewhere (that has to be about 7 hours of travel time) and then he had to fly to Syracuse which is another 2+ hours in the air. And then he had to take a bus or cab from Syracuse airport to Hamilton which is about 50 mins away. But, he loved Colgate. So, I guess it was worth it. Whatever happened to Charlie, anyway? He’s probably still recovering from his commute. </p>
<p>My own daughter flew to Colgate and home again for her four years at Colgate from Los Angeles. It was LA to Chicago or Cleveland which takes about 4+ hours. Then waiting for the connecting flight was an hour or more. Then two hours to Syracuse. Then at least an hour more before she was in her dorm room. What’s that, about 8-10 hours? She LOVED Colgate, and looking on the bright side, she became one heck of an air traveler who now knows how to navigate the entire width of the country. I suppose that’s one positive. </p>
<p>But, yes, it is a pain in the butt to travel long distances. If this is a major issue, you’d have to go to college close to home as so many students do. As for me, if I was attending Cambridge or Oxford, I’d still go there even if flying from Los Angeles to Britain was long and difficult because the eight trips – four each way – maximum that I would travel each year would be a small sacrifice for a great education. </p>