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 Brown University Bryant College (business focus) Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Providence College University of Massachusetts at Lowell University of Rhode Island Suffolk University

Small: Babson College (business focus) Emerson College Olin College Rhode Island School of Design (art school) Salve Regina University Simmons College (all women) Tufts University Wellesley College (all women) Wheaton College

CENTRAL/WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS  Large: University of Massachusetts at Amherst/Lowell

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 University

Small: Connecticut College Trinity College Wesleyan University

NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND

Large: University of New Hampshire University of Vermont

Medium: Dartmouth College Middlebury College

Small: Bates College Bennington College Bowdoin College Colby College College of the Atlantic 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

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/ PENNSYLVANIA

Large: University of Delaware Drexel University Pennsylvania State University University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh Rutgers University Temple University

Medium: Carnegie Mellon University Dusquesne University Lehigh University Villanova University

Small: Allegheny College Bryn Mawr College (all women) Bucknell University Dickinson College Franklin & Marshall College Gettysburg College Haverford College Juniata College Lafayette College Muhlenberg College Swarthmore College Ursinus College

VIRGINIA/NORTH CAROLINA/SOUTH CAROLINA

Large: Clemson University University of North Carolina University of South Carolina Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University University of Virginia

Medium: College of Charleston Duke University Elon University Hampton University (Historically Black University) High Point University University of Richmond Wake Forest University College of William and Mary

Small: Davidson College Furman University Guilford College Warren Wilson College

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 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.)

TEXAS Large: Southern Methodist University Texas A&M University Texas Christian University University of Texas, Austin

Medium: Rice University

Small: Southwestern University Trinity University

CHICAGO/SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AREA/INDIANA

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 Earlham College Grinnell College Lake Forest College Lawrence University School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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

COLORADO

Large: University of Colorado – Boulder

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: Santa Clara University Stanford University University of San Francisco

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 Occidental College Whittier College

UNITED KINGDOM

Large: The University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow King’s College London University of Oxford University of Cambridge The University of Aberdeen London School Economics University College London

Medium: University of St. Andrew’s CANADA QUEBEC/ONTARIO

Large: McGill University Concordia University University of Toronto Queen’s University Dalhousie University

VANCOUVER

Large: The University of British Columbia Simon Fraser University

Small: Quest University

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