Urban college vs campus college

ilovebagels
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:50:19 +0000

Some urban schools succeed at having an on-campus community and culture more so than others…it’s a function of factors like:

-school size
-location of the campus within the city (NYU is in the middle of manhattan, Columbia is way up on the upper west side, it matters whether the nearby distraction is 2 subway stops or 20 subway stops away…)
-the size of the city (smaller cities will have less of a vacuum effect on campus life…paradoxically this makes better cities a worse choice for those looking for a “college” experience
-the degree to which the urban campus has cordoned off a leafy green area within the metropolis (UChicago, Penn, Columbia pull this off very well, and NYU of course has no campus to speak of)