Schools with traditional campus feel but within a city

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Anonymous wrote:Macalaster
Puget Sound and Reed on west coast
Harvard
Yale
Barnard?

IDK what OP means by traditional campus feel. If you mean a self contained campus, that's a no for both Harvard and Yale. Both campuses are lovely, but they are intertwined with their respective urban environments, and you walk on city streets to get from place to place on campus. They are not separate and apart.

Both are beautiful and still feel very traditional. And there are large areas on the campuses that are apart from their cities. This includes Harvard Yard and Yale's Old Campus. Also the houses at Harvard and the residential colleges at Yale have enclosed courtyards.

Fordham has a wall around it with gates and then a small but classic college vibe on campus. It’s been used in a ton of movies, many times playing an Ivy (Quiz Show for one) because of its location in NYC (even if it is the Bronx) and look.

Exactly this! Any other schools like this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Emory

This is suburbia

It is not.

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Northeastern has real campus. Harvard does too. Wesleyan if you want a smaller city, but it is still fairly urban. For NYC that is harder. Both NYU and Columbia have defined campus but not a "traditional" one. Here in DC, American's campus would fit the bill. But even there you are in neighborhood with a different feel than being downtown somewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern has real campus. Harvard does too. Wesleyan if you want a smaller city, but it is still fairly urban. For NYC that is harder. Both NYU and Columbia have defined campus but not a "traditional" one. Here in DC, American's campus would fit the bill. But even there you are in neighborhood with a different feel than being downtown somewhere.

Harvard? No it does not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:University of Rochester. Beautiful campus within city bounds, and walkable to lots of fun stuff. Also a free running shuttle to city center where Eastman campus is for more of a downtown experience.

What is walkable from Rochester's campus?

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Let’s admit it - it’s unique. End thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:American
NYU
Not GW its really city

American? Nope

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Macalaster
Puget Sound and Reed on west coast
Harvard
Yale
Barnard?

IDK what OP means by traditional campus feel. If you mean a self contained campus, that's a no for both Harvard and Yale. Both campuses are lovely, but they are intertwined with their respective urban environments, and you walk on city streets to get from place to place on campus. They are not separate and apart.

Both are beautiful and still feel very traditional. And there are large areas on the campuses that are apart from their cities. This includes Harvard Yard and Yale's Old Campus. Also the houses at Harvard and the residential colleges at Yale have enclosed courtyards.

Fordham has a wall around it with gates and then a small but classic college vibe on campus. It’s been used in a ton of movies, many times playing an Ivy (Quiz Show for one) because of its location in NYC (even if it is the Bronx) and look.

Exactly this! Any other schools like this?

Loyola chicago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Macalaster
Puget Sound and Reed on west coast
Harvard
Yale
Barnard?

IDK what OP means by traditional campus feel. If you mean a self contained campus, that's a no for both Harvard and Yale. Both campuses are lovely, but they are intertwined with their respective urban environments, and you walk on city streets to get from place to place on campus. They are not separate and apart.

Both are beautiful and still feel very traditional. And there are large areas on the campuses that are apart from their cities. This includes Harvard Yard and Yale's Old Campus. Also the houses at Harvard and the residential colleges at Yale have enclosed courtyards.

Fordham has a wall around it with gates and then a small but classic college vibe on campus. It’s been used in a ton of movies, many times playing an Ivy (Quiz Show for one) because of its location in NYC (even if it is the Bronx) and look.

Exactly this! Any other schools like this?

USC 💯

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tufts and BC

BC Suburbia

Vanderbilt and UCLA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Macalaster
Puget Sound and Reed on west coast
Harvard
Yale
Barnard?

IDK what OP means by traditional campus feel. If you mean a self contained campus, that's a no for both Harvard and Yale. Both campuses are lovely, but they are intertwined with their respective urban environments, and you walk on city streets to get from place to place on campus. They are not separate and apart.

Both are beautiful and still feel very traditional. And there are large areas on the campuses that are apart from their cities. This includes Harvard Yard and Yale's Old Campus. Also the houses at Harvard and the residential colleges at Yale have enclosed courtyards.

Fordham has a wall around it with gates and then a small but classic college vibe on campus. It’s been used in a ton of movies, many times playing an Ivy (Quiz Show for one) because of its location in NYC (even if it is the Bronx) and look.

Fordham has also “played” Princeton and Harvard as the backdrop in “A Beautiful Mind” and “Love Story.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Macalaster
Puget Sound and Reed on west coast
Harvard
Yale
Barnard?

IDK what OP means by traditional campus feel. If you mean a self contained campus, that's a no for both Harvard and Yale. Both campuses are lovely, but they are intertwined with their respective urban environments, and you walk on city streets to get from place to place on campus. They are not separate and apart.

Both are beautiful and still feel very traditional. And there are large areas on the campuses that are apart from their cities. This includes Harvard Yard and Yale's Old Campus. Also the houses at Harvard and the residential colleges at Yale have enclosed courtyards.

Fordham has a wall around it with gates and then a small but classic college vibe on campus. It’s been used in a ton of movies, many times playing an Ivy (Quiz Show for one) because of its location in NYC (even if it is the Bronx) and look.

Exactly this! Any other schools like this?

DS also wanted a traditional campus in a city. We found Fordham, St Joes (Philly), Vanderbilt, American and possibly BU (our family disagrees on this one, DH thinks it feels like a campus but DS did not). Wish there were more!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern has real campus. Harvard does too. Wesleyan if you want a smaller city, but it is still fairly urban. For NYC that is harder. Both NYU and Columbia have defined campus but not a "traditional" one. Here in DC, American's campus would fit the bill. But even there you are in neighborhood with a different feel than being downtown somewhere.

Harvard? No it does not.

What do you mean? Harvard is literally the blueprint for the American college campus.

[Anonymous]

My son was looking for exactly this type of campus and of the schools we visited he felt like University of Chicago, University of Washington, Brown, Case Western, Carnegie Mellon, Tufts, and Washington University St Louis had it. He thought Pitt and Northeastern did not, in that both felt like there was not a cohesive campus that wasn’t ’interrupted by the city. Some of it is in the eye of the beholder, I think. And of course one can debate whether certain campuses are actually “within a city”. But that was how he saw those places.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Macalaster
Puget Sound and Reed on west coast
Harvard
Yale
Barnard?

IDK what OP means by traditional campus feel. If you mean a self contained campus, that's a no for both Harvard and Yale. Both campuses are lovely, but they are intertwined with their respective urban environments, and you walk on city streets to get from place to place on campus. They are not separate and apart.

Both are beautiful and still feel very traditional. And there are large areas on the campuses that are apart from their cities. This includes Harvard Yard and Yale's Old Campus. Also the houses at Harvard and the residential colleges at Yale have enclosed courtyards.

Fordham has a wall around it with gates and then a small but classic college vibe on campus. It’s been used in a ton of movies, many times playing an Ivy (Quiz Show for one) because of its location in NYC (even if it is the Bronx) and look.

Exactly this! Any other schools like this?

Northeastern in Boston