<p>For the colleges ranked in the USNWR Top 30, 22 of them are located in or near cities with major airports that have non-stop flights to a broad variety of cities across the country. Their campuses are a short or reasonably short taxi cab away. The remaining 8 also are reachable by air, but in several cases, this will mean connecting flights, a limited number of carriers, and/or an extended drive from the airport. </p>
<p>To all readers/posters, please provide any suggestions to prospective students on travel to these campuses by train, bus, subway, rickshaw, etc. </p>
<p>Rural schools<br>
Small Local Airport CORNELL 60 miles from Syracuse, 100 miles from Rochester
Small Local Airport DARTMOUTH 83 miles from Manchester, NH, 128 miles from Boston
Small Local Airport NOTRE DAME 109 miles from Chicago O’Hare </p>
<p>Major airport more than a taxi cab away<br>
No Local Airport PRINCETON 40 miles from Newark, 53 miles from Philadelphia
Detroit U MCHIGAN 46 miles from Detroit<br>
Small Local Airport YALE 53 miles from Hartford<br>
Small Local Airport U VIRGINIA 84 miles from Richmond, 103 miles from Washington Dulles</p>
<p>Major Airport close by with broad range of non-stop flights
Atlanta EMORY 15 miles<br>
Boston HARVARD 8 miles
Boston MIT 5 miles
Boston TUFTS 4 miles
Chicago O’Hare U CHICAGO 24 miles<br>
Chicago O’Hare NORTHWESTERN 18 miles<br>
Greensboro WAKE FOREST 25 miles<br>
Houston RICE 14 miles<br>
Los Angeles CAL TECH 29 miles<br>
Los Angeles UCLA 11 miles<br>
Los Angeles USC 15 miles<br>
Nashville VANDERBILT 9 miles
NYC LaGuardia COLUMBIA 8 miles<br>
Philadelphia U PENN 8 miles
Pittsburgh CARNEGIE MELLON 23 miles<br>
Providence BROWN 10 miles from Providence, 53 miles from Boston
Raleigh Durham DUKE 17 miles<br>
Raleigh Durham U NORTH CAROLINA 18 miles<br>
St. Louis WASH U ST LOUIS 12 miles<br>
SF Bay Area STANFORD 21 miles<br>
SF Bay Area UC BERKELEY 15 miles from Oakland, 25 miles from San Francisco
Baltimore-Washington JOHNS HOPKINS 13 miles<br>
Washington Reagan GEORGETOWN 5 miles</p>
<p>i live in northern virginia, and most people here drive down to UVA. it’s probably something close to a 2-3 hour drive on only one highway. not too bad.</p>
<p>washington D.C. has a pretty good subway/Metro system, but there is NO stop in georgetown. the closest station is in foggy bottom, which is in the middle of the George Washington U campus. so i would suggest taking a cab/renting car</p>
<p>to get to stanford, we use either SFO or the san jose airport. san jose is smaller, less crowded, and i think closer to the stanford campus. it also happens to be a hub for southwest airlines…</p>
<p>UC Berkeley -
- fly into Oakland, take shuttle bus to BART station (commuter train), take BART to downtown Berkeley, walk to campus (about 1hr)
- fly into San Francisco, walk or take shuttle to BART station, take BART to downtown Berkeley, walk to campus (about 1.5hr)</p>
<p>Southwest and Jet Blue have many more flights into Oakland. Other airlines have more flights into San Francisco. If you rent a car, drive times are about 20 minutes from Oakland airport and 40 minutes from San Francisco airport. Most people who live in the East Bay (Oakland/Berkeley area) will use Oakland airport whenever possible unless they are flying cross-country or to an international destination.</p>
<p>Caltech -
- fly into Burbank airport, take Prime Time shuttle or drive to Caltech (drive time about 30 min)
- fly into Los Angeles airport, take Prime Time shuttle or drive to Caltech (drive time about 45 min if you are very lucky)</p>
<p>Burbank airport is much smaller than LAX and is perfect for regional travel. You also avoid the freeway interchanges in downtown L.A. which are usually jammed 24/7. Unfortunately, there is limited service to most parts of the country.</p>
<p>Doesn’t it make more sense to use Midway instead of O’Hare to go to UChicago?</p>
<p>Personally, I always use Midway to get to Northwestern… I prefer the train ride to the airport. :)</p>
<p>^^ yeah midway’s real close to uchicago, but i think probably a lot of airports don’t fly into midway</p>
<p>ps kk… that is a long train ride, you take the el? i don’t like riding the el as much as i like riding the metra</p>
<p>Yes I take the el… I enjoy the ride, although it’s nearly an hour long. I don’t take that much stuff home with me so, to me, the $2 spent on the el is far better than the price of a cab.</p>
<p>to reach penn from the philadelphia airport:</p>
<p>take r1 airport train to university city stop, and you’re there =)</p>
<p>Midway is about 5 miles due west of UChicago, which takes about 20 minutes by express bus or a $20 cab ride. It’s a decently sized airport, and I would say 75-80% of my friends get flights out of Midway. The rest trek it up to O’Hare.</p>
<p>Could always fly into NYC and take a train to New Haven for Yale too.</p>
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You must be thinking of Detroit City airport–which is not the one that major carriers go to. Major commercial airlines use Detroit Wayne County Airport, which is 27 miles from campus (this is standard mileage for anyone travelling to/from campus and asking for remibursement). And there most certainly is readily-available shuttle, limo, and taxi service to Ann Arbor to and from DTW. The irony is that those of us in Ann Arbor can be to the airport in less time than many of the people who live in Detroit Suburbs.</p>
<p>Ann Arbor also has good train service to and from Chicago (three trains daily each way). It is a very busy and popular route so it can be hard to get a Sunday train to Ann Arbor, but if you plan ahead it’s fine. It’s less convenient to use the train from anywhere east. You can catch The Lake Shore Limited or the Capitol Limited in Toledo, which is about 45 minutes away. They offer a bus service to connect to Amtrak’s major stations in Michigan, but its routed to go through Detroit first, so it makes for a long trip. Better to get a ride if you can find one (or do a Taxi).</p>
<p>Columbia U is most convenient to LaGuardia airport, and it even has a marvelous public bus route from the airport right along 125th Street to the campus area for $2.00. </p>
<p>But you can also access Columbia by using JFK airport (subways to Manhattan take around an hour including all the shuttle stops within the JFK airport). </p>
<p>Another option is Newark Airport.</p>
<p>These 3 airports also run shuttle busses right into Manhattan (Port Authority or Grand Central Station) every 15 minutes for around $14 one-way, taking around 45 minutes.</p>
<p>Certainly Laguardia is best for Columbia, but sometimes people favor airlines that go to Newark or JFK airports. These are also do-able.</p>
<p>Private taxicab rides are about $40 one-way from any of these airports to Columbia.</p>
<p>If you live and study up and down the East Coast cities, it makes sense to look at Amtrak. Intercity trains don’t have the long security waits, don’t get grounded for snow or fog, and let you walk around more comfortably than greyhound busses. </p>
<p>For example, Johns Hopkins U. is about l0 minutes by taxi or city bus from the Amtrak station to the campus, but it’s about 40 minutes to the airport. If I lived in Boston, NYC, Phillie, Wilmington or D.C., and went to JHU, I’d get tp Baltimore by Amtrak train and forget the airports completely.</p>