Which Ivy has the oldest students?
I noticed that Columbia has the oldest students of all the ivies I visted. Many of them were already professionals, that were just attending for grad degrees. Has anybody seen Penn+Columbia…? I haven’t checked out Penn yet, but I’ve seen most of the others.
<p>I don't know which Ivy has the oldest, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was Harvard. I would think that HBS puts it over the top. Think about it - HBS runs by far the largest MBA program by population in the country, and MBA students tend to be old (average incoming age ~ 28). And that doesn't even count all the executive education B-school students who tend to be significantly older than that.</p>
<p>Hmm....I saw Harvard students. They were much younger looking that Columbia's though. Columbia had more 28-35 yr-olds than 16-23 yr olds from the looks of it.</p>
<p>I guess you have to go to where the students are. Keep in mind that many of the Harvard graduate students are nowhere near the main campus around Harvard Yard. HBS, for example, is not even in Cambridge, it's actually located in Boston/Allston across the Larz Anderson Bridge. It's not exactly a short walk from HBS to Harvard Yard, and furthermore, HBS runs very few classes in the main campus, and there really isn't a whole lot in the main campus that HBS students need to go to (HBS has its own really nice gym, its own restaurants, its own dorms, basically its own everything), so as a result, you don't really see a lot of HBS students around the main campus too often. </p>
<p>The point is that if you just hang around Harvard main campus, I don't think you are really getting the full picture of the entire Harvard student body. Harvard is a far more dispersed university than Columbia is. Columbia does have a med-school that is miles away from the main campus (but then again, so does Harvard), but other than that, Columbia is a fairly centralized school.</p>