There are very few cities of significant size that don’t have a college (or several) in or around. If there are specific cities that intrigue you, research their respective institutions and evaluate for fit. That approach may be less overwhelming than compiling a list of the (many) colleges in and around cities from which to choose.
Fordham. Rose Hill campus has a beautiful traditional campus in the Bronx with a short train ride to Manhattan. And the Fordham Lincoln Center campus is in Manhattan.
OP,
What does city mean to you? Does it need to have great public transit? A lot of US cities are actually quite spread out and hard to get around without a car.
Can foreign students do the traditional co-ops? Can they earn that much money in a quarter, or work for a company that requires a security clearance?
U of Denver is right on the light rail line which gives access to the entire city. It has a good finance program.
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Vassar is in Poughkeepsie – and that city offers several options for music and other arts. It also offers several great internships that Vassar students often take part in, from law-related internships, to journalism–IBM is also there etc. etc. etc.
I meant to type Bates not Colby, as Bates is in Lewiston, Maine–which is a small city.
“In or close to a city” doesn’t mean much: are we talking walking close or driving close or “close enough for a weekend trip” close? How big is a city, NYC/LA or Columbus OH? Most schools in the US are drivable from cities with 30k people, but many fewer are walkable in cities of 700k if for no other reason than there aren’t as many huge cities.
Most schools host a ton of events already, so many students find themselves staying on campus even in huge and exciting cities, and even medium sized cities have concerts and restaurants worth going to. Depending on what you’re interested in, a college town within driving distance of a bunch of schools will offer concerts, speakers, arts and sports that would put many big cities to shame. Check out Triangle Park or the Lehigh Valley to find medium towns with lots of schools.
In the end access to “exciting” things is pretty available at a lot of schools, so you might want to add other colors to the palette to get a clearer picture of what you’re looking for. Clubs? Sports? Theater, Dining? Better Drugs? Nail that down and you can make a narrower but deeper dive.
Good suggestions above. I don’t think I’ve seen Emory and Georgia Tech (both in Atlanta), SMU (Dallas), Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), Barnard if female (NYC), Case Western (Cleveland), and Temple (Phila) listed elsewhere. Not sure Here is one list I found in a two second search --Do a google search and I’m sure you can get more lists. http://www.bestcolleges.com/features/best-urban-colleges/ Some schools in suburbs include Villanova and Haverford (suburbs of Phila).
Also I would look through the list of Jesuit colleges which are mostly in cities and see which are geographic and academic fits. Some of the schools such as Gtwon (DC), BC (Boston suburbs), Fordham (NYC) have already been mentioned but there are many others. http://www.ajcunet.edu/institutions/
With those scores, Northwestern, Emory, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, NYU, Wash U, and Penn (Wharton) are all in play.
SMU in Dallas - big city, lots of opportunities for internships and jobs in both finance (Cox School of Business) and Computer Science (Lyle School of Engineering). SMU is just north of the downtown area and insulated in beautiful Highland Park and University Park. The DART light rail station is across the street at Mockingbird Station. Love Field airport, used by Southwest Airlines, is about 10 minutes straight west of campus and makes getting home very easy! Big city life, sports, entertainment, good weather. Your GPA and scores would make you an excellent candidate for merit scholarships from the university AND from either one of the colleges.
Reed College is in Portland.
OP,
If you are looking for world class cities, I think only NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and perhaps to a lesser extent Boston, Washington DC and Seattle would fit the bill. My favorite smaller city is Portland. A lot of the cities mentioned in this thread could be pretty boring and dull for internationals.
As a city lover, I second the post above. I’d move Boston and DC up to the world-class cities (they are smaller but offer top public transit, food, museums, etc) and move LA down because it’s terrible without a car and is so sprawling that it takes away most of the characteristics that make a city a city. As mentioned above, it’s important to define what you count as a city personally.
I agree with PengsPhils. Places like Dallas & Philadelphia are even more of a city than LA. LA isn’t as much a city as it is a gargantuan multi-cultural traffic jam with nice weather.
@twoinanddone yes foreign students can participate in the co-ops at Drexel. I regularly hire Drexel co-ops and we have had several foreign students over the years.
“I think only NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and perhaps to a lesser extent Boston, Washington DC and Seattle would fit the bill”
I would add Austin and Miami to the list.