COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY VISIT CLUSTERS
The groupings of colleges and universities below are by no means exhaustive; these ideas are meant to serve as good starting points when beginning a college search. Happy travels!
BOSTON/RHODE ISLAND AREA •
Large: Boston University University of Massachusetts at Boston Northeastern University
Medium: Bentley University (business focus) Boston College Brandeis University Bridgewater State University Brown University Bryant University (business focus) Harvard College Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Massachusetts at Lowell Providence College University of Rhode Island Suffolk University
Small: Babson College (business focus) Emerson College Olin College of Engineering Rhode Island School of Design (art school) Roger Williams College Salve Regina University Simmons College (all women) Tufts University Wellesley College (all women) Wheaton College
CENTRAL/WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS • Large: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Medium: College of the Holy Cross Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Small: Amherst College Clark University Hampshire College Mount Holyoke College (all women) Smith College (all women) Westfield State University Williams College
CONNECTICUT
Large: University of Connecticut
Medium: Fairfield University Quinnipiac University Yale College
Small: Connecticut College Trinity College Wesleyan University NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
Large: University of New Hampshire University of Vermont
Medium: Dartmouth College
Small: Bates College Bennington College Bowdoin College Colby College College of the Atlantic Middlebury College Saint Anselm College Saint Michael’s College
UPSTATE NEW YORK
Large: Binghamton University (SUNY) Cornell University Rochester Institute of Technology Syracuse University
Medium: Colgate University Ithaca College Marist College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University of Rochester
Small: Bard College Clarkson University Hamilton College Hobart-Williams Smith Colleges Skidmore College St. Lawrence University Union College Vassar College
NEW YORK CITY AREA
Large: New York University Stony Brook University (SUNY)
Medium: Columbia University Fordham University Hofstra University
Small: Barnard College (all women) Eugene Lang College – The New School Sarah Lawrence College
WASHINGTON, DC/BALTIMORE AREA • Large: George Washington University University of Maryland (College Park)
Medium: American University The Catholic University of America Georgetown University Howard University (Historically Black University) Johns Hopkins University Loyola University Maryland
Small: Goucher College St. John’s College (Annapolis) PHILADELPHIA AND SURROUNDING AREA/ NEW JERSEY/PENNSYLVANIA
Large: University of Delaware Drexel University Pennsylvania State University University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh Rutgers University Temple University
Medium: Carnegie Mellon University Lehigh University Princeton University Villanova University
Small: Allegheny College Bryn Mawr College (all women) Bucknell University Dickinson College Drew University Franklin & Marshall College Gettysburg College Haverford College Juniata College Lafayette College Muhlenberg College Stevens Institute of Technology Swarthmore College Ursinus College
VIRGINIA/NORTH CAROLINA/SOUTH CAROLINA/TENNESSEE
Large: Clemson University George Mason University University of North Carolina University of South Carolina Virginia Polytechnic Institute University of Virginia
Medium: College of Charleston Duke University Elon University Hampton University (Historically Black University) High Point University University of Richmond Vanderbilt University Wake Forest University College of William and Mary
Small: Belmont University Davidson College Furman University Guilford College Rhodes College Warren Wilson College
TEXAS Large: Baylor University Texas A&M University Texas Christian University University of Texas, Austin
Medium: Rice University Southern Methodist University
Small: Southwestern University Trinity University
FLORIDA/GEORGIA/LOUISIANA/ALABAMA/ARKANSAS
Large: Florida State University University of Florida Georgia Institute of Technology University of Georgia Louisiana State University
Medium: Emory University University of Miami University of Tampa Tulane University
Small: Agnes Scott College (all women) Eckerd College Florida Southern College Hendrix College Loyola University New Orleans Millsaps College Morehouse College (all men; Historically Black College) Rollins College Spelman College (all women; Historically Black College) Xavier University of Louisiana (Historically Black Univ.)
OHIO
Large: Miami University of Ohio The Ohio State University
Medium: Case Western Reserve University
Small: Denison University Kenyon College Oberlin College Ohio Wesleyan University College of Wooster
CHICAGO/SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AREA/INDIANA/IOWA
Large: DePaul University University of Illinois University of Indiana University of Notre Dame Purdue University University of Wisconsin
Medium: Butler University University of Chicago Columbia College Loyola University Chicago Marquette University Northwestern University
Small: Beloit College DePauw University Earlham College Grinnell College Lake Forest College Lawrence University School of the Art Institute of Chicago
COLORADO
Large: University of Colorado – Boulder Colorado State University
Medium: University of Denver
Small: Colorado College
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Large: University of Oregon University of Washington Western Washington University
Medium: Evergreen State University Gonzaga University
Small: Lewis and Clark College Reed College University of Puget Sound Whitman College Willamette University
SAN FRANCISCO AND SURROUNDING AREA
Large: University of California – Berkeley University of California – Santa Cruz
Medium: University of San Francisco Santa Clara University Stanford University
Small: Mills College (all women)
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Large: University of California – Los Angeles University of California – San Diego University of Southern California
Medium: Loyola Marymount University Pepperdine University University of San Diego
Small: California Institute of the Arts Chapman University Claremont Colleges: Claremont McKenna Harvey Mudd Pitzer Pomona Scripps (all women) Occidental College Whittier College CANADA QUEBEC/ONTARIO
Large: Concordia University Dalhousie University McGill University Queen’s University University of Toronto
VANCOUVER
Large: The University of British Columbia Simon Fraser University
Small: Quest University
UNITED KINGDOM
Large: The University of Aberdeen University of Cambridge University College London The University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow King’s College London London School Economics University of Oxford Trinity College Dublin
Medium: University of St Andrews
Small: Exeter College