Hello. I’m looking for colleges near a big city, as well as a good surfing beach outside of Hawaii, that also are prestigious (ish)
San Diego schools (UCSD, USD, SDSU) UCSB, UCSC. Other California schools are near beaches, but not as close - UCLA, UCI.
Depends on how you define both prestigious and near, but I’d add USC, Stanford, and Cal (more prestigious, less near) and then University of Santa Clara, LMU, Occidental, Chapman, Pepperdine… less selective and varying degrees of near the beach in CA. In NorCal the water is cold.
University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan. Some of the best freshwater surfing in the world. https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/05/7-unconventional-surf-spots-around-the-world.html
Chicken Joe from the movie Surf’s Up is from Sheboygan.
UCI is very near Newport Beach - the infamous “Wedge” for surfing.
Rhode Island University, Monmouth College, University of Miami…
Stockton U
Has part of campus at the beach in Atlantic City
U of Delaware
2 hrs from beach
Near Baltimore and Philly
minutes from Wilmington
You’re OOS for California as a Maryland resident.
Cross all of the public schools in California, since you indicated on an earlier thread that you have a limited budget and are looking for merit dollars.
The California schools will not support you with public dollars.
You can try the privates, but they are very competitive.
University of San Diego.
The Honors College at College of Charleston would put you in the largest city in SC, with surfing.
http://today.cofc.edu/2015/12/12/surfing-for-college-credit/
There’s also UNC Wilmington, which even has classes in both the history and physics of surfing.
https://www.wwaytv3.com/2016/03/24/326145/
UCSB
While the College of Charleston may not be as prestigious as you prefer, it does offer an honors college/program which is prestigious–as are all Honors Colleges & Honors Programs which carry this designation on one’s transcript.
UNC-Wilmington is a bit of a party school, but located 15 minutes away from the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Windy, gorgeous & lots of waves.
Cal Poly SLO
UNC-W is way more than 15 mins from the Outer Banks. It’s about 15 mins to Wrightsville Beach which has a pretty large surfing community: http://www.wblivesurf.com/
@Dolemite : Thanks for the correction. Still beautiful & great for surfing.
P.S. I was only off by about 4.5 hours. But the 4 hour & 44 minute drive to the Outer Banks is worthwhile–200 miles of spectacular beaches.
Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL. Quite literally a college on the beach.
Eckerd is on the beach, but I do not think that surfing is done on the Gulf side of Florida.
Only ankle busters at Eckerd, honors program and a great school though. You can kite surf and wind surf.
This place seems to be dominated by Californians, so if you haven’t surfed in 55 degree water you might want to go to Florida, better opportunity for merit money too.
At first I thought this guy wanted big surfing (and thought he might be from Hawaii and trying to get away but not lose the surfing) so didn’t even list the Florida schools. Nope, he’s from Maryland. Another post asked for schools in the midwest and north east. Those don’t exactly go with surfing.