<p>Yale is Hogwarts</p>
<p>Rutgers in Live Free or Die Hard</p>
<p>Colby College in "The Sopranos"</p>
<p>At least part of 'Twister' was filmed in the Quanset Hut on Iowa State University's Agronomy Research Farm just a few miles outside of the campus in Ames. </p>
<p>In 'Terms of Endearment', Jack accepts a faculty position at Drake. Not sure whether or not they really used the Drake campus for filming.</p>
<p>Movies featuring scenes shot on the Columbia campus include:</p>
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* A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
* Altered States
* Anger Management
* Awakenings
* Black and White
* Casino Royale
* Crimes and Misdemeanors
* Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
* Everyone Says I Love You
* Ghostbusters
* Ghostbusters II
* Hannah and Her Sisters
* Hitch
* K-PAX
* Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna
* Kinsey
* Malcolm X
* Manhattan
* Marathon Man
* The Mirror Has Two Faces
* Mona Lisa Smile
* The Nanny Diaries
* New York Minute
* Porn 'n Chicken
* The Producers: The Movie Musical
* P.S.
* Simon
* Spider-Man
* Spider-Man 2
* Stay
* Tadpole
* Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
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<p>Movies or shows with significant portrayals of Columbia alumni or students:</p>
<pre><code>* Marathon Man - Dustin Hoffman plays a Columbia graduate student studying history.
* Husbands and Wives - Woody Allen plays a Barnard professor in love with his Barnard student, played by Juliette Lewis.
* Finding Forrester - William Forrester bears a likeness to J. D. Salinger, a Columbia alumnus.
* Hitch - Alex Hitchinson, played by Will Smith, went to Columbia. He met a girl there and fooled around in the stacks of Butler Library.
* Igby Goes Down - Igby's elder brother, the class-conscious snob attends Columbia University
* The Pride of the Yankees - Biopic of Lou Gehrig, who attended Columbia in the 1920s.
* Quiz Show - Noted alum Charles Van Doren and the quiz show scandal of the 1950s.
* Real Women Have Curves - Ana, America Ferrera, wins a scholarship to Columbia and leaves for college near the end of the movie.
* The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Eric, Mike Vogel, is a student at Columbia.
* The Sopranos - the daughter of Tony Soprano is an undergraduate Columbia student.
* Nip/Tuck - Dr. Erica Noughton, the mother of Julia McNamara, is a Columbia alumna with a Ph. D in clinical psychology.
* The Rock (film) - Nicholas Cage's character, Stanley Goodspeed, is a Columbia alumnus.
* Will & Grace - In one episode, Will Truman says, "Oh, Harvard. I went to Columbia, which is just as good, no matter what my parents say.";[94] the show's other title character, Grace Adler, also went to Columbia.
* Saved by the Bell - Jessie Spano attends Columbia
* How I Met Your Mother - Marshall Eriksen is a Law student at Columbia. Many references are made to the school, including some episodes where his life as a student has a key factor in the plot.
* Lost - Both Matthew Fox and his character, Dr. Jack Shephard, are Columbia alumni.
* "Clark and Michael" - In the last episode of the Internet TV show, Clark Duke is accepted to Columbia University but chooses not to go after his and Michael Cera's fictional TV show, "The Family Cruise", is picked up by CBS.
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<p>Prison Break - Michael Scofield aka Wentworth Miller graduated from Princeton.</p>
<p>Chuck: Stanford</p>
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<p>His character went to Loyola Chicago.</p>
<p>Stanford University was often mentioned in Supernatural tv series. The younger brother went to Stanford and was about to attend Stanford Law before the older brother came up and asked for assistance. One episode was shot at Palo Alto.</p>
<p>William & Mary in "War of the Roses" with Michael Douglas. Also in Steely Dan song, "My Old School".</p>
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<p>Phoenix University is the second</p>
<p>There was a storyline in the show St. Elsewhere (that I watched religiously in college), where the arrogant surgeon Dr. Craig and his wife returned to Penn, where they met as students. Beautiful shots of the campus (at least I think it was Penn's campus)</p>
<p>But on another note - I remember the show "Too Close for Comfort", where Ted Knight's character wore a different college sweatshirt every episode - the night he came on screen in a Lafayette shirt we whooped it up in the sorority house!</p>
<p>"Save the Last Dance"- Movie : Georgetown</p>
<p>In Criminal Minds TV Series (forgot which episode) Georgetown Law was mentioned along with NYU Law and Columbia Law.</p>
<p>Do you remember the show "Coach"? It took place at a fictional college called "Minnesota State U". Anyway, there never was such a name. Now in recent years, I've noticed that many public schools in Minnesota have picked up the name. Someone from Minnesota, fill us in!</p>
<p>Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace features incredibly lucid and detailed descriptions of both MIT and BU. Emerson and University of Arizona are also mentioned, among others.</p>