<p>PizzaGirl -- Please read the OP's post #32</p>
<p>Yea, I thought the point of the thread was to find campuses that were integrated into the city like NYU. You can walk outside and it wouldn't just be college students and university buildings. There wouldn't be a quad where all the college students congregate. I've never heard of Michigan being described like that.</p>
<p>Columbia is not like NYU, though it's more similar than some other schools. I lived in the NYU area for 3 years, and went to Columbia for a year of grad school.... they're very different. Columbia has more of a college-y feel to it. It does have grass, it does have a clearly defined "central" area. All of the buildings are close together, unlike NYU which has a building every few blocks spread out over an entire neighborhood. </p>
<p>If all you want in an urban campus is that it be in a large city and not be in a gated community, than Columbia is definitely one. Otherwise, I wouldn't consider it similar to NYU.</p>
<p>I would not say Columbia is "mid-town". Columbia is in Harlem. Though Harlem has changed dramatically over the past 20 years or so and is decidedly upscale in many neighborhoods...but not all. Columbia's campus is still a bit of an oasis from the streets around it. Its fairly safe but one still has to be careful.</p>
<p>Again, I recommend Fordham Lincoln Center campus which is PRECISELY mid-town just three blocks south of Central Park. Its almost upper west side. Columbia Circle. </p>
<p>I think Carnegie Mellon is in Pittsburgh, as another option.</p>
<p>BU and Northeastern in Boston. Villanova is in an upper class area of Philadelphia. Johns Hopkins is uptown Baltimore, as is Loyola-Maryland. </p>
<p>St. Louis University is in mid-town St. Louis, at the other end of the park from Washington University-St. Louis. Wash U campus is absolutely STUNNING. St. Louis University is very pretty in its own right, with a gorgeous gothic Cathedral. </p>
<p>Tulane is uptown New Orleans.</p>
<p>Rice in Houston.</p>
<p>You get the point.</p>
<p>Oh and American is uptown in DC. Georgetown is in DC....lovely. George Washington is definitely "urban". </p>
<p>Big state schools in small college towns dont count towards what you were looking for in "urban."</p>
<p>Sure, but then by that definition, U of Chicago's neighborhood is urban too, as is DePaul's, etc. Columbia is urban, but it has a campus feeling. I think the thread was trying to get at those schools which don't have a "campus" feeling. Personally, I still think Loyola's Rogers Park campus does have a campus feel, more similar to DePaul's and nothing like NYU's.</p>
<p>St. Louis University is in mid-town St. Louis, at the other end of the park from Washington University-St. Louis. Wash U campus is absolutely STUNNING. St. Louis University is very pretty in its own right, with a gorgeous gothic Cathedral."</p>
<p>Wash U campus doesn't feel all that different to me than Northwestern's campus, honestly. In the midst of an affluent urban-to-suburban area (Clayton vs Evanston). And walking out of St. Louis University and to the surrounding area feels nothing like walking out of an NYU building into the streets of NYC.</p>
<p>"Tulane is uptown New Orleans."</p>
<p>Tulane still feels like a campus, though. It resembles Wash U or U of Chicago (campus in an urban neighborhood) more than it resembles NYU (buildings scattered in a city environment).</p>
<p>Pizzagirl is right. I'm trying to find a campus like NYU that, well... isn't a campus at all (or at least feels that way). I think I accidentally misled everyone because I, too think Columbia is not what I'm looking for, but I wanted to be sure. Sorry for the confusion. Pizzagirl and Ken285, you are exactly correct.</p>
<p>For example, see posts #38, 39, 42 etc.</p>
<p>virginia commonwealth, though richmond isnt that big of a city</p>
<p>Some people like pepperoni pizza, some people like sausage pizza, some people like plain cheese pizza, some people like the works. And some people dont like pizza at all.</p>
<p>So it goes.</p>
<p>LOL.</p>
<p>I would second the University of Pittsburgh as a distinctly urban campus. Now, Carnegie Mellon, although it is literally across the street from Pitt, has a rather secluded campus.</p>
<p>Just back from a visit to Fordham today!</p>
<p>Check out the Lincoln Center campus!</p>
<p>George Washington University is just like that. I remembered thinking about the comparison between it and UNC. UNC has that distinct college campus "feel" and GWU was basically the city. It would be neat, but you would definitely have to want that experience.</p>
<p>Boston University- very similar to NYU just in boston...right in the middle of boston, walk right out into the city</p>
<p>Can't really believe no one expanded on this school as its academics are very similar to NYU</p>
<p>Fordham Lincoln Center Campus yes, Rose Hills Campus, no</p>
<p>And I totally agree with Quiet Type, U of Pittsburgh is an urban campus, Carnegie Mellon--4 blocks east in the residential area is not.</p>
<p>I do not agree that Univ of Washington falls into this category. It is much more like USC, UCLA, and Carnegie Mellon in that it has a well-defined campus that happens to be surrounded by the city (Seattle in this case) but it is nothing like the NYU type of campus. (This is why Georgetown doesn't qualify, either).</p>
<p>Michigan makes more sense--it is very much like NYU and Univ of Texas and George Washington--although I would agree that it's in a slightly smaller town, not a city like New York or even one the size of Austin.</p>
<p>Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, (both sit on College hill) and Johnson and Wales all are in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. I think RISD and Brown retain a college feel.</p>
<p>The New School, Hunter College, Manhattan Marymount.</p>
<p>George Washington exactly fits your description of what you are looking for.</p>
<p>boston university
columbia college chicago (for film/arts)</p>
<p>I am very very surprised that BU has only been mentioned twice thus far, as I think that it is the closest school in comparison to BU. As JKTerrapin said, its academics are generally comparable to those of NYU, and its feel is quite literaly NYU picked up and moved to Boston.</p>