In “Good Will Hunting,” the character played by Robin Williams went to Bunker Hill Community College.
Oraco: Lip got into MIT, but didn’t go. Instead he with to Chicago Polytechnic (a fictional school). The scenes of the campus on Shameless are of University of Illinois at Chicago.
Most of Gilmore Girls was filmed at Pomona College.
@Studious99 yes!! Andy Bernard who had to drop CORNELL in almost everything he said lol
@basil1 HIMYM the three BFFs went to Wesleyan 
“All of the friends in The Big Chill went to Michigan”
Yes because they are supposed to be loosely based on Tom Hayden and his SDS friends and the thought about what would happen if they grew up to be “The Man”
I’d like to add (and I really want the t shirt):
Accepted (2006) - South Harmon Institute of Technology
Top of my head: The Firm (Tom Cruise, Harvard), A Few Good Man (Tom Cruise, Harvard), Beautiful Mind (Russell Crowe, Princeton), The Chamber(Chris O’ Donnell, U Michigan).
Big Bang Theory: Raj (Cambridge), Leonard (Princeton), Penny (Community College, probably Pasadena City College).
Amy - Harvard
Howard - MIT
“Animal House” was filmed at the Univ. of Oregon and around town in Eugene.
The Harvard campus in the “Paper Chase” TV series was filmed at USC.
The Harvard campus in “The Social Network” was mostly filmed at Johns Hopkins plus some scenes at prep school.
The Harvard campus in “Legally Blonde” was filmed at a church and a high school in Pasadena, except for the aerial shot as Elle first drives into Cambridge. That is the real Harvard campus and Harvard Square.
The CULA campus in “Legally Blonde” was filmed at Caltech.
@coolweather that movie is based on the life of John Nash, who was a real person (not fictional as in thread title).
I don’t find this plausible. Tom Hayden graduated from Michigan in 1961 and wrote the Port Huron Statement launching SDS on a radical New Left course in 1962. The Big Chill crowd are getting together in 1983, 15 years after graduating, which would put their graduation at 1968–a very different era. And most of the movie’s fabulous soundtrack is music that came out in the mid to late 60s, long after Hayden’s days in Ann Arbor. By that time he was organizing low-income communities in Newark. Plus, most of the characters in the movie are football fans. I’m not sure that was ever Tom Hayden’s thing, and in any event, Michigan football wasn’t such a big deal in Hayden’s day, with mediocre teams and lackluster attendance. By the late 60’s Michigan football was a very big deal, as reflected in the characters in the movie.
The only similarity is that the characters in The Big Chill had been radical campus activists, but there were plenty of those in Ann Arbor in the late 60s, long after Tom Hayden was gone–in fact, far more than in Hayden’s day. Hayden was a pioneer and something of an outlier in his college days, when most students were still in 1950s-style conventional conformity mode. By the late 60s, left-wing campus activism—to be sure, inspired in part by predecessors like Hayden—was very much the mainstream in places like Ann Arbor, Madison and Berkeley, with anti-war protests drawing tens of thousands. That sort of mass-market radicalism just didn’t exist in Hayden’s time on campus. The film was written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, a University of Michigan grad who was there from 1966 to 1970, contemporaneously with the characters in The Big Chill. The film is probably better understood as a reflection and spoof on the casual campus radicals of Kasdan’s day, many of whom quickly settled into conventional careers and more mainstream political views after leaving Ann Arbor. Tom Hayden, in contrast, continued to devote his life’s work to left-wing causes right up until his death in 2016.
BB: Sheldon: UT Austin then Caltech
Does anyone know which college Benjamin graduated from in The Graduate? Of course, Elaine Robinson was attending Cal-Berkeley in the film.
By the way, some of the film was shot in USC. Of the scenes actually shot in Berkeley, there’s the Sather Gate, Caffè Mediterraneum on Telegraph Ave, and the Theta Delta Chi frat house on Durant Ave.
Also, Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) from High School Musical 3 matriculated to Berkeley while Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) attends Stanford.
I looked it up @TiggerDad Benjamin Braddock graduated from Williams College.(Dustin Hoffman’s character).
I read that the author of The Graduate went to Williams but I couldn’t find anywhere that the character Benjamin went to Williams. In the film, it never mentioned which college specifically.
While at Williams, Ben was editor of the paper, member of the track team, and a Frank Helpingham Scholar.
@GnocchiB Yes. I know John Nash. Thanks for pointing out though.
The Big Bang characters have Rate My Professor entries for Caltech. (It seem unclear what their role is at the university, since they seem to have no teaching responsibilities. Perhaps they are perennial post-docs.)
This is cool. The Big Bang Theory actors and crew contribute to UCLA scholarship funds.
http://www.starwatchbyline.com/?p=19316
Some people think Amy works at UCLA because in one episode she asked the gang to go to UCLA cadaver lab to play real life operation.