<p>Please describe the Northeastern campus. Although it's in Boston, is it more of a typical college campus with green space and buildings that seem to go together with a connected and community feel to the campus or is it more of an urban campus like NYU where the campus is really just regular city buildings with no distinction between school and city?</p>
<p>I’ll put it this way - in Boston, Northeastern is the school that is most like a typical college campus. There is green space (though not nearly as much as, say, your average large state school), and a coherent campus (it’s fairly clear where the university starts and the rest of the city begins).</p>
<p>You may want to try looking at a campus map. ([Northeastern</a> University Campus Map](<a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/campusmap/map/index.html]Northeastern”>Northeastern University Campus Map))</p>
<p>The main green areas are Centennial Common, Krentzman Quadrangle, and the center of West Village. There is also another ‘quadrangle’ that isn’t formally named, surrounded by the Student Center, Robinson, Mugar, and Hurtig. There are also some sports fields in the south, but I don’t know the details on their usage - I think clubs tend to be using them, and probably some of the athletic programs. </p>
<p>You may want to try getting a better look with Google Maps or Google Earth. However, your best bet it to pay a visit to the campus itself.</p>
<p>The edges of Northeaster are city-like, but the core is more campus-y than you’d expect. </p>
<p>This video is fun.
[Northeastern</a> State of Mind - YouTube](<a href=“Northeastern State of Mind - YouTube”>Northeastern State of Mind - YouTube)</p>
<p>No green spaces. Its a perfect example of urban campus.</p>
<p>There are definitely small green spaces - for example centennial and Krentzman quads. Also, they do a great job on campus with the trees and flowers and such (lovely in the spring and summer).</p>
<p>Two words. Best Campus</p>
<p>I recently visited and I have to say it’s serious competition when I decide which schools I will be going to. I didn’t expect much of it before going because I didn’t like Boston very much last time I went (about 4 years ago and may be due to my family being annoying lol), but I fell in love with the campus when I got there. It was perfect: no need for car, everything accessible, looks amazing, and still retain that campus feel.</p>
<p>I visited last week and was impressed by the campus especially since I was prepared to dislike it after seeing it several times from the T and Huntington Ave when visiting the Museum of Fine Arts. But once on campus there is a clear separation from the city outside, and there are many nicely landscaped green spaces–whoever is doing the design is really making the most of what’s available. One building even had an ornamental banana tree outside, impressive considering the Boston climate.</p>
<p>Wait, where is there a banana tree???</p>
<p>In front of Stetson dining hall.</p>
<p>East or West? I rarely go over to the freshman quad. Probably why I can’t recall having ever seen such a thing.</p>
<p>Stetson East…check out Northeastern Universirty-An Urban Oasis on utube!</p>
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Apparently xtremepower has not been to campus in the past 20 years, if ever.</p>
<p>Here is a short video of the campus taken from a student built drone:
<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7-0Jln8MNo”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7-0Jln8MNo</a></p>
<p>If you have not yet visited campus, the video gives you an idea of the blend of urban/green that exists. </p>
<p>In addition to the link above, I’ll also recommend checking out the Virtual Tour Northeastern has recently created.
Though it doesn’t have the full impact of an on campus tour and cannot replace it, it can be useful to you.</p>
<p>I still encourage you, if in the area, to book a tour of the campus.
<a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/admissions/virtualcampustour/index.html”>http://www.northeastern.edu/admissions/virtualcampustour/index.html</a></p>
<p>The campus is really nice, although the layout looks a bit haphazard.
There are a few nice green quads.
The campus is bound on the west and east sides by the Green and Orange T lines, both of which are above ground at this location.</p>
<p>I visited BU first, because one of the college guide books spoke much more favorably of BU than Northeastern.
We later visited Northeastern on a beautiful spring day, when the student body was out on lawn chairs with their laptops. The campus is also not that far from Fenway, which is part of the park system called the Emerald Necklace.</p>
<p>Look at the campus map and satellite map if you live too far away to visit. </p>
<p>I have been on two visits to campus so far and have LOVED it both times. When I was on campus, I literally couldn’t even hear any traffic or city noise, I heard birds chirping. It is a very cohesive campus, unlike other urban campuses where the limits of the campus are very unclear, you immediately know when you are stepping on and off campus. Also, I saw lots of green space. I really feel that it gives you the feel of a more suburban campus, but plopped right in the middle of the city. Also, its only a few blocks from Fenway, which is always a plus (:</p>
<p>BU has the trolley running right through the center of it on Commonwealth Ave—, prevents you from forgetting that you are on the streets of a major city. . Northeastern is a more cohesive urban campus. </p>
<p>If you are looking for a college campus NE is not for you. The city of Boston is it’s campus. You are mixed in with others - For example Ruggles station (an MBTA station) is basically on campus. You walk thru Ruggles to get to honors dorm. A lot of people view this as a plus and some as a minus. It is not True (as others above said) that area colleges don’t have a campus - Some don’t ie Boston University and some do ie Boston College, Tufts, Brandeis, etc. You need to visit and see if it is for you. </p>
<p>It’s not true that Northeastern doesn’t have a campus. It has far more of a campus than BU does. But it’s not a suburban campus. It is definitely an urban campus, complete with T stops in the middle of it. It is definitely cohesive and feels like a unit, though. Walking to and from campus from my apartment, I go past about 4 other colleges, and Northeastern definitely feels like it has more of a campus carved out for itself than these. I personally like the compromise of having this focal campus but having so much else right up next to it. Even though there is a campus unit, it still feels like the city becomes part of the campus in a lot of ways.</p>
<p>From my visit and looking at campus maps I would agree with @nanotechnology</p>