Know of any colleges secluded in nature?

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<p>Prescott College is in a small town, but it offers a month-long “wilderness orientation” program for incoming students and really caters to outdoorsy people.</p>

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<p>University of British Columbia. Surrounded by 2000 acres of forest and beaches. Westcoast. Great Anthro program</p>

<p>[Welcome</a> to The University of British Columbia - UBC.ca](<a href=“http://www.ubc.ca/]Welcome”>http://www.ubc.ca/)</p>

<p>Coincidentally, the first picture on this page is of the Museum of Anthropology. Ranked #13 in the world in terms of social sciences: </p>

<p>[THE</a> - QS World University Rankings 2009 - Social Sciences | Top Universities](<a href=“http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2009/subject-rankings/social-sciences]THE”>http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2009/subject-rankings/social-sciences)</p>

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<p>Isn’t UBC in Vancouver, Canada, which is like a huge metropolis?</p>

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<p>Some great choices already mentioned. I would add:</p>

<p>Simon Fraser in British Columbia if you are going North.</p>

<p>Bard College in the East.</p>

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<p>Thanks, everybody! I’m taking a note of all of these.</p>

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<p>I seem to recall Whitman College, in western Washington, having some sort of semester’s study where students basically backpacked throughout different regions in the western states, focusing on different themes each semester. Also, St. Lawrence University, in the north country of New York State, having a yurt where students spent a semester – usually in the winter – which sounded quite unique. College of the Atlantic is good, very small, but only one major is available. Marlboro College in Vermont is tiny, isolated, and intellectual.</p>

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<p>I can confirm the program at Whitman. It’s called Semester in the West where students and a faculty advisor travel the West Coast learning about environmental issues from the various groups involved e.g. loggers, farmers, environmental groups etc. A really excellent program for an Environmental Studies major, but perhaps not so much for an anthropology major?</p>

<p>On the bright side, there’s much outdoors-wise in the vicinity of the Whitman campus. Though situated in the (small, small) city of Walla Walla, Whitman often leads trips to the Outdoor Program to the nearby Blue Mountains, the Columbia River, and many other places. (I personally am not familiar with the OP’s offerings, but it will suffice to say that Eastern Washington has many places that would attract a nature-enthusiast.) Also, Whitman is a well-respected LAC with a solid offerings in Anthropology.</p>

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<p>Re: UBC. Yes, a bus ride away from a city of 2 million, home of the Olympics in February. But it really is also a campus on a penninsula surrounded by 2000 acres of forest and beaches and ocean. You have to see it to understand it I suppose. And if nature is your thing, you can be skiing, backpacking, or snowshoeing in the remote wilderness of the local mountains in the morning before class, or windsurfing, or sailing at the UBC sailing club in the afternoon.</p>

<p>Here is a photo that gives you some perspective. The campus is in the foreground, and you can see downtown in the distance…</p>

<p><a href=“http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/UBC_aerial_view.jpg[/url]”>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/UBC_aerial_view.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>“I’m very interested in getting as close to nature as I can.”</p>

<p>I used to feel like this. Then I saw the movie “Deliverance.”</p>

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<p>Deliverance is fiction (I hope), but if you want to consider that area, there’s North Georgia College and State University, Appalachian State and Western Carolina. UNC-Asheville too (but it’s less middle of nowhere).</p>

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<p>Appalachian State maybe?</p>

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<p>I second UC Santa Cruz. Go ahead and google maps the university… you’ll see it is surrounded by redwood forest and has a considerable amount of elevation change from one end of campus to the other. </p>

<p>It is also only a 10 minute bicycle ride from the city of Santa Cruz. Nice balance of nature and an environmentally friendly town.</p>

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<p>How about Middlebury? Williams?..</p>

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<p>Humboldt State for sure</p>