<p>We've all heard of the big names: Amherest, Boston, Burlington, Princeton, manhattan, KS, Ann Harbor, Madison, etc.....
But what are some great smaller college towns supporting smaller colleges and not large universities?</p>
<p>Hanover NH is pretty nice.</p>
<p>Uhhhhh. It's Ann ARBOR, not Harbor. Just thought you should know. :P </p>
<p>Anyways, it's kind of hard to say. Some like Palo Alto, some don't. Stanford is pretty big, but I figure it's not HUGE.</p>
<p>Skidmore (Saratoga Springs), Middlebury (Middlebury, Vt) and Denison (Granville, OH) are three I am partial too. On the other hand, I haven't been 20 in....many years....to I'm probably not looking at the same things a college student would be looking for.</p>
<p>Wow, I did put Ann harbor, I apologize. I've got respect for the wolverines and it great college and a great town. Sorry Ann Arbor.</p>
<p>San Luis Obsipo (Cal Poly)</p>
<p>Williamstown is teeny tiny, but the kids at Williams love it. It is adorable, caters to students, and is integrated into the campus.</p>
<p>I dont no why u included manhatten kansas, its crap. Also, williamstown has one stoplight and like 3 stores. Chapel Hill, Charlotesville, and Lawrence all all great college towns, although the schools there are big. I thought brunswick (bowdoin) was pretty cool for a small college town.</p>
<p>Princeton is in a small town... and it's not that big....</p>
<p>Home to the 5,000 students of Carleton College and St. Olafs. For you history or movie buffs, best known as the place on September 7, 1876 the James gang's attempt to rob the 1st National Bank was thwarted. The beginning of the end for Jesse James. Great historic town of about 20,000 along the Cannon River about 35-40 miles from Minneapolis-St. Paul.</p>
<p>"dont no why u included manhatten kansas, its crap."</p>
<p>I go there a few times a year to visit family, and it definitely isn't crap! There are tons of restaurants and the mall is really nice! It is a great college town...small size, but it has everything there that you could possibly want.</p>
<p>I visited KSU once was pleasently surprised by how nice the town was.</p>
<p>oberlin ohio</p>
<p>Davidson, NC, home of Davidson College</p>
<p>Perhaps I'm partial to my hometown, but it's really an awesome place. There's a great coffee shop (with alcohol and nightly live music, natch), restaurants for every budget and taste (Italian, Japanese, southern...), a cute library, and it's just fun to walk around in. It's a small town, but you do see new faces all the time. It's rural, but twenty minutes and you're in the state's biggest city, Charlotte (which is just a fun place to be, too--half uptown banker, half downtown art fest).</p>
<p>I'm a high schooler, but I love how integrated the college kids are with the town.
They're buying cereal at CVS, sitting on the town green with the Odyssy, sitting behind me in church.... Davidson started as a college town, and I still don't think it would thrive without the polos and Birkenstocks roaming around.</p>
<p>Pullman (WSU)</p>
<p>Missoula, Montana (Montana) -- small town; small university</p>
<p>Walla Walla, WA -- Whitman College
Arcata, CA -- Humboldt State
Salem, OR -- Willamette U.
Ellensberg, WA -- Central Washington U.</p>
<p>Saratoga Springs (Skidmore) is really nice.</p>