Any help looking for schools with the following qualities would be appreciated.
-urban setting
-has a distinct campus (i.e. not NYU or BU)
-public or private
-univ or liberal arts
Obviously the Ivies fit these criteria, but I am looking for more schools.
Union, Trinity, URochester, Macalester, Colorado College.
California State University - Los Angeles
http://www.calstatela.edu/sites/default/files/univ/ppa/campus_map.pdf
Georgetown University
http://maps.georgetown.edu/
Howard University
https://www.howard.edu/explore/map/HowardMap_150107.jpg
Laney College
http://www.laney.edu/wp/extension/files/2011/01/campus_map3.jpg
San Diego State University
https://sunspot.sdsu.edu/map/sdsu_map_bw.pdf
San Jose State University
http://www.sjsu.edu/map/
University of Southern California
https://web-app.usc.edu/maps/map.pdf
University of Texas - Austin
http://maps.utexas.edu/
University of Washington - Seattle
http://www.washington.edu/maps/
NOOOOOORTHEASTERRRRRRN UNIVERSITY! City of Boston is great, academics are too and improving every year, outstanding career services, and, of course, a real campus!
Many of the Jesuit schools fit the bill: Georgetown, BC, Fordham, St. Joes, Loyola MD to name a few. The Jesuits have schools all over the country and for different academic stats.
http://ajcunet.edu/institutions
Some Ivy schools work such as Columbia, Penn Brown, Harvard, Yale. Some others to consider that I can think of offhand are: MIT, Tulane, Vandy, Emory, Tufts, Northwestern, UChicago, Wash U, Carnegie Mellon,Johns Hopkins, UCBerkeley, UCLA, USC, Pitt, Macalester, Barnard (if female), Reed and I’m sure there are tons more.
I’d go through the USNWR list of schools and see which fit your geographic and academic requirements.
Occidental, Lewis and Clark, UW Madison, Goucher
The “distinct campus” criterion may be a bit fuzzy. Some schools have a main campus, but a significant number of the campus buildings are off the main campus and mixed in with non-campus buildings on nearby streets (e.g. Berkeley, see http://www.berkeley.edu/map ). Would the OP count these as “distinct campuses”?
Northeastern is exactly what you are looking for. I hated BU for that exact reason, but Northeastern has all of the perks of the urban setting with a small, distinct community campus. I’m sure that there are others that similarly match the criteria, but Northeastern is everything that you want.
SMU, American, Temple, Rice, UDenver are some others.
Vassar, Macalester and Reed - all urban LACs with distinct campuses and all private
@55al00m, how do you define ‘urban’? Columbia and Dartmouth are both Ivies. both in a town or city, but Dartmouth does not feel at all urban- at least, to me! And Cornell is near Ithaca, but is so isolated from the town that it does not feel even remotely urban.
Do you mean an enclosed campus that is porous to a town with shops? Vassar and William & Mary are that- but again, I wouldn’t consider either of them ‘urban’. Macalester and Columbia have a defined campus that is porous to an actual city. American has some sections of defined campus, and is inside city limits- but most of the campus is pretty far from anything that you would call ‘urban’, and the parts that are near shops, etc are far from the main campus area.
McGill University in Montreal is the perfect example of a defined, green urban campus in the middle of downtown.
My nephew was looking for an urban environment with a distinct campus, which is what the OP seems to be looking for. He chose Macalester, which – apart from the interminable winter/snow/cold thing, fill the bill perfectly. I would concentrate first on where in the country you want to be (Northeast/West/South) and pick a city that you think you’d want to live in (It won’t do you any good if we well you that Rice has a great campus in the middle of Houston if living in Texas is not your cup of tea).
Georgia Tech fits the description. Stand on the campus green and you would never know you’re in the midtown Atlanta, until you look over the trees and see the skyline. Emory, btw, is 10 minutes away and not urban at all.
Others include NC State, Richmond, Ohio State.
Boston College and Holy Cross
Carnegie Mellon, Duquesne in Pittsburgh
The suburban colleges on Philly’s main line are not exactly urban, but they are just a hop on a short train ride to Philly: Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Villanova
I really like the way brown is in providence and Harvard in Cambridge. Inside a city and with the advantages of a city but with the feel of a campus and community. A suburban school in an urban setting. I think Northeastern looks good. I typically like medium size schools (4-10k). I’d prefer to stay on the eastern HALF of the country but I’m not closed to further west.
Thanks!
Vanderbilt?
Vanderbilt, Tulane and Emory are great suggestions.(Vanderbilt - heart of Nashville; Tulane - in Garden District/ Uptown, on streetcar line; Emory - Clifton Rd. [CDC, Emory Point] / N. Decatur Rd [Emory Village] are urban; Atlanta Virginia Highlands and Little Five Points neighborhoods are 5 minutes away.)
Also: University of Chicago
Northwestern (Evanston is just over the Chicago city line and parts blend into Chicago, also with El stop.)
The Ohio State University (Columbus - High Street)
College of Charleston (King Street!)
University of Miami (Gated campus - right outside urban Miami, Coral Gables)
SMU (Dallas)
Trinity University (San Antonio)
George Washington University is a good choice.
