I do not know the differences between the colleges’ schedules, but I suspect that geographic proximity is also a good indicator about the likelihood of cross-registration actually taking place.
5 College Consortium in MA
I would imagine that there’s more cross-registration between Amherst and UMass (0.9 miles apart), followed by Hampshire (4.3 mi from UMass), than there is between those and Smith (7.5 mi from UMass) or Mount Holyoke (10.1 miles from UMass), due to the increased distances between them.
Baltimore Collegetown
In looking at the Baltimore Collegetown consortium, there’s a shuttle that goes between Johns Hopkins, Towson, and Notre Dame of Maryland, plus Penn Station & Towson Town Center (source) making me think that those schools have more students that are active in the consortium. The further a school is from a shuttle (or other schools), the less likely I think students would be to participate in the consortium.
- Johns Hopkins (has its own shuttle stop)
- Towson (has its own shuttle stop)
- Notre Dame of Maryland (has its own shuttle stop)
- U. of Baltimore (0.2 mi from Penn Station)
- Loyola Maryland (1/4 mile from Notre Dame and less than 1 mile from JHU)
- Goucher (0.3 mi from Towson Town Center)
- Maryland Institute College of Art (0.4 mi from Penn Station)
- U. of Maryland, Baltimore (1.4 mi from Penn Station)
- Coppin State (2.4 miles from Penn Station, 2.5 from JHU)
- Morgan State (2.4 miles from Notre Dame)
- U. of Maryland, Baltimore County (6.8 miles from Penn Station)
- Community College of Baltimore County (7.8 miles from Towson)
- Stevenson (12.6 miles from Towson)
ARCHE Consortium (Atlanta)
I suspect these have the most cross-registration (for scale, it’s 0.2 miles from Spelman to Clark Atlanta):
- Spelman
- Morehouse
- Clark Atlanta
These are the ones where I think cross-registration is more feasible, but not as easy as above:
- Georgia Institute of Technology (1.8 mi from Clark Atlanta, 1.2 miles from Georgia State, 4.2 miles from Emory, 6.0 miles from Agnes Scott)
- Georgia State (1 mile from Clark Atlanta, 1.2 miles from Georgia Tech, 4.8 miles from Emory, 5.6 miles from Agnes Scott)
- Agnes Scott (2.4 miles from Emory)
- Emory (2.4 miles from Agnes Scott)
Unlikely for most students to do much cross-registration, but more likely than the schools further down:
- Oglethorpe (5.7 miles from Emory, 4.5 miles from Mercer’s Atlanta campus).
I suspect these schools are too far for most students to consider cross-registration at the other schools:
- Brenau
- Clayton State
- Kennesaw State
- Mercer
- U. of West Georgia
- U. of Georgia
Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education
Of the schools in this consortium, these are the ones that I think are likeliest to have cross-registration between them. I’ve put the distances between the schools on the map, so one can have a better sense of distances.
- Pittsburgh Theological Seminary to Chatham: 1.5 mi
- Chatham to Carnegie Mellon: 1.0 mi
- CMU to U. of Pittsburgh: 0.5 mi
- UPitt to Carlow: 0.2 mi (added in because I accidentally forgot it and didn’t feel like redoing the others)
- UPitt to Duquesne: 1.6 mi
- Duquesne to Point Park: 0.5 mi
- Point Park to Community College of Allegheny County: 1.5 mi
- CCAC to Pittsburgh Theological Seminary: 5.9 mi
I suspect these schools are too far for most students to consider cross-registration at the other schools:
- La Roche
- Pittsburgh Technical College
- Robert Morris
New Orleans Consortium
- Loyola to Tulane: 0.2 miles
- Tulane to Notre Dame Seminary: 1.4 miles
- Tulane to Xavier: 1.6 miles
- Notre Dame to Xavier: 0.7 miles
- Xavier to Dillard: 4.0 miles
As Tulane’s and Loyola’s campuses are literally adjacent to one another, I suspect there’s the most cross-registration there but as Xavier is only about 1.5 miles away, there may be some cross-registration there. I suspect that there is little cross-registration with Dillard due to the distance but Dillard to the other universities is still closer than all the 5 college consortium colleges to UMass apart from Amherst, so that’s just an additional frame of reference.