I got some great feedback on my last post, but wanted a more narrow discussion. I am interested to find a college with a beautiful chapel and italian vibe. I want an Italian town!!! So far I have the North End in Boston and Arthur Av in NY. Please tell me some more!!!
Providence College in RI. It is near Federal Hill.
University of San Francisco, University of San Diego, Santa Clara University, Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles. Or do you mean like University of Bologna, actually in Italy?
University of Illinois at Chicago (no chapel) is in Chicago’s Little Italy, or perhaps DePaul?
One more idea without knowing budget, major, interests-- John Cabot University in Rome.
Fordham in Bronx, New York has a stunning, gorgeous, clasic-looking campus within walking distance to an Italian neighborhood with very good Italian restaurants and first-rate Italian delis.
You’d being going to school with many tri-state Catholics–Irish and Italian, mostly–and a mix of others too, including nonCatholics.
Fordham’s prime location is across the street from the Bronx Botanical Gardens and very near the Bronx Zoo–places most folks are willing and eager to travel to. (Free admission for Fordham students.)
There’s also a nice classical museum on campus.
Best of all–to me–its non-academic offerings is the train station within feet of campus that can take you into Manhattan, and ultimately anywhere.
Sorry, didn’t notice you already had Arthur Avenue down!
thanks everyone!! clarification-- i only want schools in the USA.
The colleges themselves aren’t going to have an Italian vibe. Sure, you could go to a college in or near a city that has an Italian neighborhood but that’s about it. Boston has the North End but it’s not like the colleges and universities in Boston are close to it.
I highly suggest however that you spend a semester or year abroad in Italy. Nothing like the real thing. 
Lots of colleges have study abroad programs to Italy. Wouldn’t it be nice to get an education here but have a chance to live and study there for a semester.
Sorry, but there are no Italian towns in the USA. The best you can do is find a school in or near a historically Italian-American neighborhood, probably in the northeast. But no one is going to mistake that neighborhood for an actual town in Italy. If you really want an Italian college experience, you should be researching colleges with great study abroad programs in Italy.
If you mean a historic sanctuary that is cluttered with beautiful works of sculpture and painting, then you may be disappointed by most US university chapels. My impression is that university chapels, even at Catholic schools, are typically nice enough but aesthetically rather neutral, perhaps because of the need to accommodate students from different denominations.
There’s a distinct Mediterranean atmosphere at some university chapels in the southwest, like in the reconstructed Spanish mission at Santa Clara University, which also serves as a parish church. But it’s Spanish/Mexican, not Italian.
Perhaps a college in one of these towns.
http://www.foodrepublic.com/2015/03/12/7-italian-neighborhoods-around-america/
^#4 Federal Hill, Providence College. St. Dominic’s is a little bit modern though. http://www.providence.edu/mission-ministry/about/Pages/st-dominic-tradition.aspx
We are just a quarter Italian but my sister (who looks Italian with lovely olive skin and dark hair while the rest of us look Irish/Germanic and her in laws call her their Irish daughter in law LOL) is married to a great guy (and cook!) who is 100% Italian. He and his large Italian family love Federal Hill. You can get anything. In the mornings at Venda, first generation Italian immigrants will come in and get their espressos and pastries. Providence also has Water Fire which are nighttime music events in which gondolas float down the canal in Providence and light braziers on the canal. Very fun. It is supposed to be like Venice. https://waterfire.org/ Westerly, 45 minutes south of Providence has a large Italian population and other great supply stores. Westerly also has great beaches and Taylor Swift has a house there.
According to the National Italian American Foundation, Rhode Island is the most Italian state in the US.
http://www.niaf.org/culture/statistics/states-with-the-highest-percentage-of-italian-americans/
Baltimore has a Little Italy neighborhood that is not far from many of the colleges - Hopkins, Loyola, Notre Dame. Even Towson and Goucher aren’t that far. Many of the parishes in that neighborhood will be ‘Italian.’ The city used to have ethnic festivals every weekend in the summer (don’t know if they still do) but the biggest was the Italian Festival.
Nancy Pelosi grew up in Baltimore’s Little Italy when her father was mayor.