Good Schools in Cities?

I’m willing to look at any school in the United States that is in or close to a city. One of my major criteria for colleges is having an environment in which there are many surrounding activities.

Some schools I’ve toured and liked:
University of Minnesota
University of Chicago

No schools are off-limits. If you have any suggestions I’d love to hear them :slight_smile:

What are your stats? Useless to suggest schools that would be out of reach.

I have a 34 ACT and a 4.0 GPA

It’s also worth mentioning that I am most interested in Computer Science and Finance, however I am open to any options.

Thanks

Boston University
Northeastern University
New York University
George Washington University
University of Southern California
UCLA or UC Berkeley (but only if instate or you have wealthy parents)

If you would consider Canada
McGill University
University of Toronto

Georgia Tech. Emory if it’s not too suburban for you. What will your family be willing and able to contribute financially?

University of Washington in Seattle–comp sci is direct admit for some of the students, I believe, so that is a challenge

Washington University in St. Louis

Rice in Houston

Tulane in New Orleans

Vanderbilt in Nashville

University of Richmond

Case Western Reserve in Cleveland (an underrated city)

Thank you guys! I really like your suggestions.

You could try this Newsweek article:

http://www.newsweek.com/25-most-desirable-urban-schools-71889

Hey! I would maybe consider the University of South Carolina (in the state capital of Columbia)! The campus is great, they give terrific scholarships, and based on your stats, you’d be a fit for their top ranked honors college! If you have any more questions about it, let me know! I will be attending next Fall and have done a ton of research!

Is your 4.0 weighted or non?

NC State is in Raleigh, State capital

LACs and Unis that are in cities–

  • Macalester
  • Trinity College
  • Columbia U
  • Barnard
  • NYU
  • Fordham
  • MIT
  • Colby
  • UVM
  • Boston College
  • Boston U
  • Harvard
  • Yale
  • Brown
  • Connecticut College
  • Vassar
  • U of Richmond
  • Northwestern
  • Georgetown
  • UT Austin
  • Rhodes

Colby?

Check out Drexel in Philadephia. One of the best Co-op programs around so you will graduate with real work experience (Four year one co-op; or five year three co-op).

@Dustyfeathers Colby and Vassar are definitely not in cities. They couldn’t get more rural.

@englibsci18 Interesting how posters put out their favorite schools even though they are irrelevant to the OP’s criteria.

University of Pittsburgh should definitely be added to the list.

OP what is your budget?

@Dustyfeathers Vassar is in a medium sized town but the town does have regular train service into Manhattan and lots of students head into NYC pretty frequently. It’s about an hourish train ride to Grand Central.

Conn College is not really in much of a city (~27000 residents). I think the OP wants urban schools.

Has anyone mentioned Reed? Not really in downtown Portland, but technically in the city.

Or Rhodes in Memphis?

Trying to fill in the gaps here of the schools not mentioned:
Occidental
Duke
UPenn
Temple
American
Carnegie Mellon
Wake Forest
Clark
The New School
Pepperdine
UWisconsin Madison
UMiami
Johns Hopkins
URochester
Colorado College
Loyola Marymount
UTulsa
Stevens Tech
Lewis & Clark

I would also be skeptical to call Burlington a city. At ~45000 residents it is much more of a college town. Northwestern is much more suburban than urban, but if you can handle that then fine, and add Tufts, Brandeis, Sarah Lawrence, Swarthmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr.

What is your budget? What state/country are you from?