Schools with traditional campus feel but within a city

[Anonymous]

When you say traditional what does that mean? Like just that it is set off a little or old stone buildings?

UMiami has an amazing campus that is pretty contained, but a few minutes from Coconut Grove and then a few more to Miami proper. It also has a train line that runs by campus.

The architecture is different, but the campus is pretty amazing.

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Creighton! And Omaha is a beautiful city.

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Anonymous wrote:Tulane

And Loyola and the HCBUs in NoLa.

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Anonymous wrote:USC, NYU, GWU, Northeastern, BU, Emory, SMU (although it is in such wealthy are it seems divorced from an "urban" feel)

USC is suburbia
NYU does not have a campus feel
GWU doesn't really either but way more than NYU
No idea about NE.
BU sort of
Emory is the burbs.
SMU. Hmm, I think this fits the bill but I still don't think of Dallas as super urban like NYC.

BU does not have actual campus.
NYU feels more cohesive with Washington Square in the center. Definitely better vibe.
Colleges in NYC and Boston >>> any other city

BU has a campus. To me, BU felt more student-focused than NYU, but the buildings are spread out along a long street.
NYU is more clustered, but it's hard to tell where the school’s boundaries are.

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Yale

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Vanderbilt

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:American
NYU
Not GW its really city

The only 'campus' feel about NYU is Washintgon Square Park.

Washington Sq. Pk. has vagrants getting into bum fights. Feels nothing like a "campus." NYU Stern ' 15

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DePaul in Chicago, mediocre school, great campus and environment.

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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.

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Ohio State
Cincinnati

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Anonymous wrote:Ohio State

+1
DS from DC chose Ohio State bc of urban feel combined with walkable campus. Loves it.

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GWU has two campuses and a shuttle between. While Foggy Bottom is integrated into the city, Mount Vernon (in DC not VA) is a traditional campus in the more residential Foxhall area. There’s a shuttle between the two campuses and students go back and forth.

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U Chicago, U Washington, USC, Tulane

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Appreciate everyone who responded. I should have clarified. We visited the Rose Hill campus in the Bronx. As someone pointed out, you’re right, it’s not right in the city but you can catch a train just steps from the campus and they have a school shuttle that takes you to the Lincoln Center campus. What DS likes about it is that the campus is self contained. Other than the occasional sirens and honking the way the campus is laid out you would think you were at a SLAC in PA. But right outside you get the hustle and bustle of city life. You have the botanical garden on on side and the Bronx on the other.

I don’t think NYU fits in this category because it’s integrated with the city.

There is also some of the best Italian food going in Belmont just down the street.

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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.