<p>I am looking for schools with the following qualities:</p>
<p>-urban setting
-has a distinct campus (i.e. not NYU)
-top tier(s)
-public or private
-univ or liberal arts</p>
<p>Of course, there are the ivies, but considering I DONT get into those... any ideas?</p>
<p>McGill University</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is nested in the Oakland/Squirrel hill area with a distinct tight traditional green college campus but is also just 5 min away from U.Pitt and downtown Pitts.</p>
<p>Of course, some of the Ivies are inherently the most urban schools in the country because, like Oxford or Cambridge, they were founded long before most other universities, and their host cities have therefore grown up around them. "Urban" is not really a matter of a campus's address, but much more about how the campus relates to its surroundings. For example, SUNY-Albany is in Albany, but it is by no means an urban campus.</p>
<p>Here are a few that might qualify, outside the Ivy League, and that are also fairly well-regarded:</p>
<p>MIT, Wesleyan and Smith (very small cities, so arguable), Macalester, Trinity College, UC-Los Angeles, UC-Berkeley, University of Rochester, USC, Syracuse, Georgetown, University of Chicago, Northwestern, Tulane, WUSTL, UVM-Burlington (very small city, so arguable), UT-Austin, UW-Seattle, Colorado-Boulder, Michigan-Ann Arbor, McGill.</p>
<p>UCB and UCLA. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Case Western in Cleveland.</p>
<p>looeypie, just start with a city and work backwards: Boston -- Tufts, BA, BC, MIT; Washington Georgetown, GWU, American; and so forth.</p>
<p>Cities with populations over 100,000.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University
Duke University
Emory University
Georgetown University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rice University
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
University of Texas-Austin
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vanderbilt University
Washington University-St Louis</p>
<p>PosterX has a good list. </p>
<p>I'd add Reed, Mt. Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Bowdoin, Haverford, Emory, Vanderbilt, Rhodes, Johns Hopkins, Occidental, Wake Forest, UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, Rice, & UWisconsin-Madison.</p>
<p>I think the original poster better define his or her idea of "urban". I'm seeing a lot of names thrown out that may or may not fit the definition.</p>
<p>For example, UPenn is definitely urban by any definition, being located downtown in a major city. Bryn Mawr and Wellesley are urban in the sense that you can hop on a train and be downtown in less than half an hour. They are in old inside-the-beltway type neighborhoods, but not urban in terms of immediate surroundings.</p>
<p>Give us a little guidance....</p>
<p>BTW, I can't imagine ANY definition that would include Mt. Holyoke (or several others mentioned) as "urban".</p>
<p>Tufts, Holy Cross, Duke, Northwestern.</p>
<p>Add: Villanova</p>
<p>If you want truly urban and not suburban, Subtract: Tufts, Mt. Holyoke (!?!), Wellesley</p>
<p>I wouldn't have included Bowdoin as Brunswick is quite small. It's attractive, has a Main Street of shops, restaurants, but is more of a college town than an urban setting.</p>
<p>I have heard it said that Northeastern in Boston now has a distinct campus, but can't speak to that first-hand.</p>
<p>Tufts has the ideal setting: 15 minutes from downtown Boston but still has a distinct, rolling hills type campus.</p>
<p>Mt. Holyoke...close to Springfield (small city), and a quick bus ride away from Northhampton and Amherst, although they are towns. Just not quite sure what city means to OP.</p>
<p>Barnard College if you're a girl.
University of Chicago
Georgetown University
George Washington University
Columbia University
Boston University</p>
<p>Columbia University
UPenn
All DC Schools</p>
<p>University</a> of San Francisco<a href="Jesuit%20Catholic">/url</a>
[url=<a href="http://www.mills.edu%5DMills">www.mills.edu]Mills</a> College in Oakland, CA (an oasis in the hood for women!)
[url=<a href="http://www.scu.edu%5DUniversity">www.scu.edu]University</a> of Santa Clara<a href="Jesuit%20Catholic%20in%20Silcon%20Valley">/url</a>
[url=<a href="http://www.sandiego.edu%5DUniversity">www.sandiego.edu]University</a> of San Diego<a href="Roman%20Catholic">/url</a></p>
<p>None of these are considered top tier, but are all decent schools. SCU is just a 1-hour CalTrain ride away from San Francisco. I don't mention any state schools in California because oos tuition is so outrageously high...</p>
<p>Columbia, Georgetown, Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Clark University and Holy Cross in beautiful Worcester, MA.</p>
<p>Rice is an oasis in Houston, the 4th largest city and 2nd largest port in the US. The campus is surrounded by a large museum district, a huge park, and the largest medical center in the world.</p>