Division 3 urban campus

Corbett
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 04:16:09 +0000

There are plenty of good schools with D3 athletics in New England. But most of them are liberal arts colleges outside the big cities. So the “urban” requirement will definitely hurt your options.

Tufts, Brandeis, Clark U, and Trinity are urban. Wellesley, if a women’s college is OK. Holy Cross, if low D1 and Catholic is OK.

Not convinced that Connecticut College qualifies as particularly urban. If New London is urban enough, them add Wesleyan U. Middletown is bigger than New London, and closer to Hartford.

A friend’s daughter goes to Amherst and suggested she look there, but is there a lot to do near the Amherst campus?

Amherst, MA is not a major urban area, but it does have tens of thousands of college students, due to the presence of UMass, Amherst, Smith, Mt Holyoke, and Hampshire. It’s known as a “college town” environment that caters to student interests and budgets. From a student perspective, there may well be more “things to do” in Amherst than in, say, Hartford. Sure, Greater Hartford has a much larger population, but I think they are mostly insurance executives, not students.