Which campuses are so big that most students use busses to get around them?

[Anonymous]

My kid is at Madison and there are definitely shuttle busses around but he walks or scooters/bikes everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UMD has a shuttle however DS only takes it between the bars on Baltimore Ave and his dorm.

The shuttle is awesome. It comes to our neighborhood in SS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I took buses pretty regularly at UVA 30 years ago.

Now kids use scooters.

And yet UTS rumbles on, with its awesome student drivers. I loved seeing friends behind the wheel when I got on the bus!

[Anonymous]

Rutgers

[Anonymous]

B.U. and UMass, diasapointingly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I wonder how small some people's bubbles really are.

+1
Exactly. So bizarre to be "stunned" by this!

[Anonymous]

VT has a pretty contained, walkable campus. Most kids only use the shuttles to get to and from off-campus housing.

[Anonymous]

Tons. UMass Amherst, Cornell, I think U of MD and U of Delaware (most flagship state universities I suspect).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tons. UMass Amherst, Cornell, I think U of MD and U of Delaware (most flagship state universities I suspect).

Thanks for responding without reading.

[Anonymous]

JMU has east and west campus.

[Anonymous]

not a big school but at W&M it's the only way to get between main campus and the school of education if you're unfortunate enough to have back to back classes.

also I think a lot of students use them to get to off-campus housing (the on-campus shuttle stops at the largest student apartment complex)

[Anonymous]

I think OP is referring not to very large campuses but where there’s no way to walk to separate campus. I know Rutgers is like this—some classes are at a different campus so you have to use a vehicle to get there. Not like Maryland which has buses that go around campus but you can walk just as fast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think OP is referring not to very large campuses but where there’s no way to walk to separate campus. I know Rutgers is like this—some classes are at a different campus so you have to use a vehicle to get there. Not like Maryland which has buses that go around campus but you can walk just as fast.

Rutger's is insane. 15 minute BUS RIDE from one end of the campus to the other. It's a monstrosity. Buses have to go on the highway to get there.

[Anonymous]

Even relatively smaller schools have shuttles to east or west campuses or even for late night safety (Emory, Harvard). I don’t think it’s a sign of size necessarily. It’s interesting though to understand how big the undergrad vs grad population is, how isolated vs integrated the school is with the local town or city. It’s hard to get a feel without visiting really.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think OP is referring not to very large campuses but where there’s no way to walk to separate campus. I know Rutgers is like this—some classes are at a different campus so you have to use a vehicle to get there. Not like Maryland which has buses that go around campus but you can walk just as fast.

Did you read the actual OP? Do you know anything about the size of Michigan State?

Good grief.