slater6661

Prefferably by acre. I'm looking for some large college campuses in New York, or in the Northeast area. I want to compare them to my current college, Stony Brook University.

Coolbrezze

Two that I can think of are, Ohio State University- Columbus, Michigan State University

Corbett

It may depend on what you want to consider "campus" land. For example, the campus of the University of California at Davis, which is the most agriculturally-oriented school in the UC system, technically stretches over some 5300 acres, or more than 8 square miles, across two counties.

Most of this acreage is farmland, used for university ag research (there's also a small airport). When most people picture a university campus, they probably aren't thinking about farmland. However, the UC Davis farmland is all contiguous with the "core" parts of the University, is owned by the University, and is used by the University for academic purposes, so there is no particular basis for distinguishing it from the rest of the campus.

lynxinsider

Sewanee? 13,000 acres on top of a mountain...

res ipsa

Michigan State is a huge campus. Ohio State, Minnesota and Penn State have lots of people.

FindAPlace

I thought I read somewhere that the Stanford and Sweet Briar (?) campuses were the largest in the US. But then maybe the ag land at UC Davis was not considered in the equation, I don't know.

Corbett

The Michigan State campus, like that of UC Davis, includes thousands of acres of farmland. The Duke, Sewanee, and Berry campuses are larger than either, but consist primarily of undeveloped forest land.

Stanford has a lot of land, but most of it is open space, or is leased commercially for non-academic purposes, like the Stanford Shopping Center (so Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom are technically part of the campus)

Probably a more relevant statistic would be the acreage devoted to conventional academic activities, excluding associated forests, farmland, shopping malls, etc. But this statistic would be harder to generate. Schools naturally report all of the acreage that they own, regardless of what it is actually used for.

IBclass06

With 26,000 acres, Berry College dwarfs any other college in the country. I believe it's the second largest campus in the world (the largest is in Russia, if I recall correctly).


In comparison:

Sewanee 13000
Duke 8600
Stanford 8200
Sweet Briar 3300
Ohio State 1800
Stony Brook 1400
Emory 630
Chicago 200
Brown 140
Fordham 30
Barnard 4



As long as the undeveloped sections are contiguous with the classroom sections of campus, I see no problem in including such campuses.

Including satellite campuses (e.g. Cornell Med in NYC) is where it gets dodgy.

lynxinsider

Forgot USAFA at 18,000 acres.

ds143

berry college.

it even says on their website theyre the largest by land. 26,000 acres.

Berry College Office of Admissions

rjkofnovi

MSU has 5200 acres on it's main campus.