<p>Penn, GW, Drexel (if you can call that a campus), American, UChicago, MIT (well I hear it's walking distance to downtown Boston), BC, BU, Northeastern, UCLA, USC, the list goes on.</p>
<p>Trinity College is a beautiful campus in Hartford</p>
<p>Columbia, definitely. Very distinct, gated campus right in Manhattan.</p>
<p>^right in Harlem</p>
<p>BU does not really have a campus. its more the NYU feel.</p>
<p>^^ Venkat 89,
that's a cheap shot. Columbia is in Morningside Heights, a neighborhood the late comedian George Carlin (who grew up there) used to call "white Harlem." It was a tough neighborhood in the 1970s but Columbia has spent a ton of money on security and buying up and rehabbing the surrounding neighborhood, and now it's statistically one of the safest neighborhoods in NYC. Development on the West Side above 96th St has also linked Morningside Heights pretty seamlessly with the Upper West Side, a very virbrant part of Manhattan. And Columbia's campus, though small, is lovely---a classic urban campus. </p>
<p>I'd put Brown in that category, too. Though Providence is obviously a much smaller city, it has a distinctly urban vibe, and the Brown campus is a cool, leafy academic oasis hard by downtown.</p>
<p>U Chicago has a nice campus but it's a bit of an island, surrounded by some very tough South Side neighborhoods. Downtown and the generally more vibrant Northside lakefront feel a million miles away from there. I'd go for the academics, not for the "urban campus."</p>
<p>Loyola University in New Orleans is literally right next to Tulane. Neither one is downtown, but they are still close enough to allow easy access to the city.</p>
<p>In Minneapolis, definitely U of Mn-Twin Cities. Macalester is near St. Paul downtown, but still quite near Minneapolis. Carleton would be about 45 mins. away from the Twin Cities. Northwestern in Evanston, IL. Rice in Houston. Several in LA (USC, UCLA, etc.) and Boston. Fordham and Columbia in NYC.</p>
<p>Reed College and Lewis & Clark College are both within the Portland, OR, city limits, each about 15 minutes from downtown.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech. East Campus is more city like and West Campus is more of a traditional college campus so you get the best of both worlds in my opinion</p>
<p>University of San Diego has a beautiful, well-maintained Spanish-style campus. Shopping, active nightlife, and the beach are all within easy reach of the school.</p>
<p>Fordham and Columbia in NYC have nice gated campuses</p>
<p>thanks for all the responses. as far as size, I like smaller colleges, but up to 12,000 is fine with me.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon has a distinct campus, in the city but set apart...Not so with Pitt, even though the two schools are practically next to each other.</p>
<p>Rice's campus is beautiful, and it's in the nice part of Houston. Rice actually has trees. :D</p>
<p>Vanderbilt...ehh. I don't like Nashville because I find it to be rather boring, and I hate Tennessee... Oh well.</p>
<p>^ yeah and its too predominantly white for me</p>
<p>Don't know what area of the country you are looking at or how selective a school -- but many of the Jesuit schools have nice campuses in the middle of cities. People have already mentioned Fordham and Loyola New Orleans -- there's also Marquette in Milwaukee, Saint Louis University, Gonzaga in Spokane, Creighton in Omaha, University of San Francisco, Seattle University, Loyola Chicago (Lake Shore campus), etc.</p>