How is this possible when there are so many students? I’m going by the information on the college.usnews website. Does anyone know if the campus is actually that small?
there are CSU’s in Calif that are somewhat like that…
CSUFullerton has only 236 acres, but has 38,000 students. They manage. That’s over 3 times as many students on land that isn’t that much bigger.
They may have tall buildings, they may have parking structures, they may have some off-campus housing.
Dense urban campus and a lot of commuter students.
The campus is very spread out. It won’t feel small. Also, as above, there are a lot of commuter/part-time/non-traditional students.
I think they stack the students in neat little piles 
I go here, the campus isn’t that small, and the majority of the students are commuters.
These schools, for comparison, are either larger by student popullation in general or have a much greater percentage of residential students:
University of Southern California: 229 acres
Harvard (main campus): 209 acres
Brown: 146 acres
UML has a LOT of commuters. It doesn’t feel cramped at all.
And the school is split into multiple campuses that straddle a river. Also, UML owns properties that are no physically adjacent to the campus; the Tsongas Center being one example.