<p>I really want to find colleges/universities that are surrounded by major cities but still have a campus vibe. So far the only two cities come to my mind are Boston and Chicago but the latter has more of the nyc vibe. I dont really want nyc sort of thing for my college experience but I dont want to be in the middle of nowhere. So anybody can tell some colleges/universities that are in the middle of crazy cities?</p>
<p>Upenn is smack in the middle of Philadelphia. In fact, Philadelphia is probably the 2nd most prolific college town after Boston.</p>
<p>Penn, Yale, Brown, UNLV, and WashU come to mind. They're all pretty dissimilar, though.</p>
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<p>Brown--Providence could be a good choice and it's also not far from Boston.</p>
<p>Macalester--near Minneapolis-St.Paul</p>
<p>Goucher, U Maryland --Towson, Johns Hopkins ---near or in Baltimore</p>
<p>Georgetown, American- U.- in Washington,D.C.</p>
<p>Byn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore--all within 20 min rail commute of Philadelphia--strong campus cultures.</p>
<p>Emory U -- Atlanta</p>
<p>Tulane -- New Orleans</p>
<p>Texas - Austin</p>
<p>USC, UCLA, Boston College, BostonU, GWU, SMU, UChicago</p>
<p>Case Western Reserve in Cleveland.</p>
<p>Eh, SMU has a "campus vibe" in the immediate area around the school (University Park), but Dallas as a whole does not have a "campus vibe"</p>
<p>U of Pittsburg & Carnegie Mellon also in Pittsburg</p>
<p>U of Rochester & U of Buffalo</p>
<p>Obviously, there are alot of schools by urban areas- so give us more info as to what your stats and interests are--</p>
<p>SUNY Buffalo has two campuses. One is near the city limits and the other is suburban. It's not an urban campus.</p>
<p>Ohio State, St. Louis Universty</p>
<p>Boston
-harvard
-MIT
-wellsely
-amherst
-williams
a ton moreee</p>
<p>Chicago
-u chicago
-norte dame
(i hav no idea!)</p>
<p>Amherst and Williams are on the other side of Massachusetts from Boston.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech - Atlanta and Notre Dame isn't even in Illinois</p>
<p>The archetype of what you are talking about is Columbia.</p>
<p>Northwestern and several others that have already been mentioned also come to mind.</p>
<p>Yale has the best campus life/campus culture that I've ever seen, outside UW-Madison perhaps, and even more impressive, it is one of the few colleges located at the center of a major city. City Hall, huge office buildings, hundreds of restaurants, shops, nightclubs, 24-hour diners, a huge 7-screen movie theater, etc., are within a few hundred feet of the dormitories, but because they are easy to get to they don't detract from campus life as much. Since New Haven isn't huge, there's also access to New York City less than 70 miles away, although with the opening of hundreds of new businesses in New Haven just in the past few years, I hear there's now less of a point to taking the train there. </p>
<p>Brown, Penn, etc., are also decent in these respects, but they are very much on the periphery and you have to go away from campus to get into the real city center. Another choice might be Harvard, it's campus life isn't that great and it's kind of far from Boston, but at least it's in the center of the Harvard Square district (which is kind of like an outdoor shopping mall, but still pretty "urban"). BU and a few of the smaller schools in Boston proper are in a happening area, but they suffer from the same lack of campus life that NYU or Columbia does. Honestly, those places are totally dead. I appreciate you not wanting to go to college in the middle of a huge city, where there is no campus life and therefore much less of an opportunity to bond with classmates, bump into friends basically everywhere you go, etc.</p>
<p>Other places are Ohio State and UT-Austin, and perhaps even U-Wisconsin, UVA UNC-CH and U-Michigan, that is, if you don't mind being pretty remote from a big city, but still living in a pretty happening small city - "college towns" on steriods, you could say. Of course there are smaller, lesser-known colleges in many cities as well. The problem is that very few colleges are located at the center, because typically the college was founded many years after the city/town was founded. The only reason Yale and Harvard are in the middle of their host cities are because they are so old.</p>
<p>I hope you guys read your prescription medicine labels better than you read the OP's thread-starter:</p>
<p>OP says, "I don't really want NYC sort of thing for my college experience..." So naturally somebody recommends Columbia.</p>
<p>OP says "I don't want to be in the middle of nowhere." So naturally people recommend Williams, Amherst, and Notre Dame (yes, South Bend is nowhere).</p>
<p>There are enough excellent colleges in and around San Diego, San Francisco, Boston, Washington DC, and a few other cities that you shouldn't have to compromise any of your criteria.</p>
<p>having grown up in new orleans, i think that tulane's campus really allows a student to take advantage of all of the perks of nola. situated in the middle of uptown new orleans, it is minutes away from dozens of historical/ renowned restaurants and bars, and a streetcar ride to the french quarter. if i wasnt from here, i would be dying to go to tulane.</p>
<p>Just because I haven't seen it mentioned, what about Vanderbilt? Nashville is a cute, clean, and charming city and the Vandy campus is very distinct from it, but still right in the center of the action.</p>
<p>UMD has a stop on DC's metrorail system, it is closer to DC than it is to baltimore</p>
<p>also add howard to schools that are in DC</p>
<p>temple is also in philly
syracuse is in a city
upitt, carnegie mellon are in pittsburgh
theres a couple in chicago...
thats all i can think of</p>