Which of these Universities have an urban campus? Thank you!!
1.) Ohio State University
2.) University of Toronto
3.) Arizona State
4.) Texas A & M
5.) Univ. Iowa
6.) Illinois@Chicago
7.) Purdue University
8.) Johnson & Wales University
9.) University Tennessee
10.) Penn State
11.) University Arizona
12.) Michigan State
13.) Indiana University
14.) UC Santa Cruz
15.) UC Merced
16.) Hofstra
17.) UC Riverside
18.) Wake Forest
Penn State is suburban, if not rural. It’s in the middle of nowhere. 
Google is your friend. Look up the cities/towns of each school and check population and population densities.
Having lived in AZ myself, I can definitely say ASU and U of A would be classified as “urban.” ASU’s Tempe campus is right next to the 202, and the U of A is less than 2 miles from downtown Tucson (a new streetcar connects U of A with downtown).
However, this stuff is easy to Google. Each of these universities has a Wikipedia page, which tells you if it is considered rural, suburban, or urban.
Illinois@Chicago is about 1 mile southwest of the Loop in Chicago. You won’t get much more urban than that…
Hofstra is in the suburbs, about 30 minutes by train from midtown Manhattan.
And I agree with MITer94-- take a look at each school’s webpage. You’ll find out a lot more there.
Purdue and Indiana are not urban.
Ohio state is definitely urban.
Urban schools:
-Ohio State
-University of Toronto
-Arizona State (quasi urban. Very horizontally developed city)
-University of Arizona (same deal as ASU)
-University of Illinois - Chicago
-University of Tennessee
Everything else is in a suburb or town.
Also, do you just mean a campus in an urban area? Growing up in NYC, people often used “urban campus” to mean a school that doesn’t have a formal campus with quads and things and instead just blends into the surrounding city like NYU. In contrast I never heard Columbia referred to as “an urban campus” like NYU was.
Can only speak for Hofstra, but definitely not Hofstra.
@iwannabe_Brown Yes I mean an urban campus, very similar to the setting of NYU or Pace University. Thanks !
Oh, well that changes things!
Penn State is definitely not an urban campus. Not even close. It’s on the exact opposite end of that spectrum.
I don’t have a whole lot of experience with the other colleges on the list, but judging by photographs and second-hand knowledge the only ones that could maybe fit the description you put forth are University of Toronto (sort of, but not really - it’s kind of a hybrid), UIC, some parts of the UT-Knoxville campus (also sort of), and some parts of the Arizona State campus. And even then, they aren’t really comparable to NYU or Pace; they’re just more urban than your typical four-year university in a college town (like Texas A&M or Penn State or Purdue).
If you want a better chance of finding colleges with urban campuses, look for colleges that are actually in large urban areas. Towns like State College, PA (Penn State) and West Lafayette, IN (Purdue) developed in whole or in part simply because the university was there, so the university is the dominant part of the landscape. Urban areas like Columbus, Knoxville and Tempe are small enough that their universities can spread out and not do the sort of urbanized thing. Universities like NYU and Pace had to contend with an already crowded urban landscape and had to build their campus around the existing city, not the other way around. You’re more likely to find urban campuses in places like Boston, New York, D.C., Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago - very large cities with not a lot of open green space. (Even Atlanta is debatable, because it does have a lot of green space - but Georgia State University is a pretty urbanized campus without definition or a quad or anything).
Generally (very generally) speaking, the flagship campus of a public university system is unlikely to be an urbanized campus. Even UCLA doesn’t seem that urbanized, although I could be wrong.
If you want to swap out Penn State for something urban, consider Pitt.