4bcd3f

Which schools have little to no campus? As in, similar to BU and GWU.

elizabethh

I don't think students at BU would concur that there's no campus. As my D says, Commonwealth Ave is their campus. It may not be the classic quad with grass, but anyone who has spent time walking down Comm Ave during a school day would definitely know they are among college kids!

BobbyCT

NYU comes to mind as well as Suffolk in Boston.

4bcd3f

elizabethh- I consider no campus to mean no huge green spaces, and knowing that you are in the middle of a city. To me, BU fits this. This is what I am looking for in a school. I just got back from a trip to visit colleges in Boston and hated Northeastern. When people ask me why, I like telling them there was too much green for me

I know NYU fits this, but it does not have engineering, and I am not interested in the polytechnic institute. Thanks though!

Booklady

UPitt. While there is a large park nearby, the university itself is completely urban.

ttparent

NEU has too much green? Are you serious, more green than BU? If I remember correctly you can pretty much stay underground going from building to building. All the buildings are very closed with few feet wide strip of grass next to some paved paths. And the quad is so tiny surrounded by paved ground, if you think that's too much green, I would like to hear which other campus would be alright for you.

Longhaul

Pitt Question -- Is it similiar to Drexel? Drexel has very little green, but along with neighboring Penn the entire area is dominated by students.

applicannot

GWU definitely has a defined, enclosed campus with a few meeting places if not "green" places, so I wouldn't say it has no campus at all. The closest to "no campus" I've come across is NYU, which is generally considered the least cohesive of the urban campuses. If you're just thinking of urban campuses, try the University of Pittsburgh (lots of green space though, it just doesn't belong to the school...).

gadad

OK, I've been posting on CC for over five years, and this is something I've never heard before. Wow. I mean, there are students who decide to go to urban campuses which have little green space, but striking a school off the list for having grass and trees? Hmmm. Well, NYU is basically campus-free, but you know there are those annoying planters with those tall green things next door in Washington Park!

BCEagle91

BU has that little grassy hill adjacent to Storrow Drive - they do a wide-angle picture of that to show you how much green campus they have. Actually they do have some green space above that. I did go to BU (for Grad School) and I'd go with the idea that it has no campus.

interestingguy

Columbia has the smallest campus in the Ivy League. But Columbia students probably consider NYC to be their "campus."

applicannot

The least green I can think of is GW, but you'd die if you got shunted to their Mount Vernon campus your freshman year, and there is one kind of greenish (really brown) quad area.

4bcd3f

I was mostly just kidding about the NEU part. Although it did have quite a bit more green than BU haha. And I'm not exactly crossing off schools due to their green-ness but it seems to be what I like. Of the 9 schools I've visited, I'm applying to 2 so far: BU and GWU.

I guess I didn't mean what most of ya'll are considering no campus. I really just mean very urban, knowing that you're in the middle of the city. I'm just not looking for the green quad type of thing. This is my only requirement (besides having engineering) and it's turning out to be harder than I was expecting!

I like how several have suggested Pitt, since I submitted my app for there not five minutes before I checked this

applicannot

I can think of Virginia Commonwealth University, but it's a state school... and not even a flagship.