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 CENTRAL/WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS Large Large Boston University University of Massachusetts at Amherst University of Massachusetts at Boston Medium Northeastern University College of the Holy Cross Medium Worcester Polytechnic Institute Bentley University (business focus) Small Boston College Amherst College Brandeis University Clark University Bridgewater State University Hampshire College Brown University Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Bryant University (business focus) Mount Holyoke College (women’s college) Harvard College Smith College (women’s college) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Springfield College University of Massachusetts at Lowell Westfield State University Providence College Williams College University of Rhode Island Suffolk University Small CONNECTICUT Babson College (business focus) Large Emerson College University of Connecticut Olin College of Engineering Medium Rhode Island School of Design (art school) Fairfield University Roger Williams College University of New Haven Salve Regina University Quinnipiac University Simmons College (women’s college) Sacred Heart University Tufts University Yale College Wellesley College (women’s college) Small Wheaton College Connecticut College Trinity College Wesleyan University NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND Large University of Maine NEW YORK CITY AREA University of New Hampshire Large University of Vermont New York University Medium Pace University Dartmouth College Stony Brook University (SUNY) Small Medium Bates College Columbia University Bennington College Fordham University Bowdoin College Hofstra University Colby College Small College of the Atlantic Barnard College (women’s college) Middlebury College Eugene Lang College – The New School Saint Anselm College Sarah Lawrence College Saint Michael’s College 1 UPSTATE NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA AND SURROUNDING AREA/ NEW JERSEY/PENNSYLVANIA Large Binghamton University (SUNY) Large Cornell University University of Delaware Rochester Institute of Technology Drexel University Syracuse University Pennsylvania State University Medium University of Pennsylvania Colgate University University of Pittsburgh Ithaca College Rutgers University Marist College Temple University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medium University of Rochester Carnegie Mellon University Small Lehigh University Bard College Princeton University Clarkson University Villanova University Hamilton College Small Hobart and Williams Smith Colleges Allegheny College Skidmore College Bryn Mawr College (women’s college) St. Lawrence University Bucknell University Union College Dickinson College Vassar College Drew University Franklin & Marshall College Gettysburg College WASHINGTON, DC/BALTIMORE AREA Haverford College Large Juniata College George Washington University Lafayette College University of Maryland (College Park) Muhlenberg College Medium Stevens Institute of Technology American University Swarthmore College The Catholic University of America Ursinus College Georgetown University Howard University (Historically Black University) Johns Hopkins University OHIO Loyola University Maryland Large Small Miami University of Ohio Goucher College The Ohio State University St. John’s College (Annapolis) Medium Case Western Reserve University Small Denison University Kenyon College Oberlin College Ohio Wesleyan University College of Wooster 2 VIRGINIA/NORTH CAROLINA/ FLORIDA/GEORGIA/LOUISIANA/ SOUTH CAROLINA/TENNESSEE ALABAMA/ARKANSAS Large Large Clemson University Florida State University George Mason University University of Florida University of North Carolina Georgia Institute of Technology University of South Carolina University of Georgia Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Louisiana State University University of Virginia Medium Medium Emory University College of Charleston University of Miami Duke University University of Tampa Elon University Tulane University Hampton University Small (Historically Black University) Agnes Scott College (women’s college) High Point University Eckerd College University of Richmond Florida Southern College Vanderbilt University Hendrix College Wake Forest University Loyola University New Orleans College of William and Mary Millsaps College Small Morehouse College Belmont University (men’s college; Historically Black College) Davidson College Rollins College Furman University Savannah College of Art and Design Guilford College Spelman College Rhodes College (women’s college; Historically Black College) Warren Wilson College Xavier University of Louisiana (Historically Black University) TEXAS COLORADO Large Baylor University Large University of Houston University of Colorado – Boulder Texas A&M University Colorado State University Texas Christian University Medium University of Denver University of Texas, Austin Medium Small Rice University Colorado College Southern Methodist University Small University of Dallas Southwestern University Trinity University 3 CHICAGO/SOUTHERN WISCONSIN PACIFIC NORTHWEST AREA/INDIANA/IOWA Large Large University of Oregon DePaul University University of Washington University of Illinois Western Washington University University of Indiana Medium University of Notre Dame Evergreen State College Purdue University Gonzaga University University of Wisconsin Small Medium Lewis and Clark College Butler University Reed College University of Chicago University of Puget Sound Columbia College Whitman College Loyola University Chicago Willamette University Marquette University Northwestern University Small SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Beloit College Large DePauw University University of California – Los Angeles Earlham College University of California – San Diego Grinnell College University of Southern California Lake Forest College Medium Lawrence University Loyola Marymount University School of the Art Institute of Chicago Pepperdine University University of San Diego Small SAN FRANCISCO AND California Institute of the Arts SURROUNDING AREA Chapman University Large Claremont Colleges: University of California – Berkeley Claremont McKenna University of California – Santa Cruz Harvey Mudd Medium Pitzer University of San Francisco Pomona Santa Clara University Scripps (women’s college) Stanford University Occidental College Small Whittier College Mills College (women’s college) 4 CANADA UNITED KINGDOM Large QUEBEC/ONTARIO The University of Aberdeen Large University of Cambridge Concordia University University College London Dalhousie University The University of Edinburgh McGill University University of Glasgow Queen’s University King’s College London University of Toronto London School Economics Small University of Oxford University of King’s College Trinity College Dublin Medium VANCOUVER University of St Andrews Large Small The University of British Columbia Exeter College Simon Fraser University Small Quest University Updated 2.21 5 .