How Many College/University Campuses Have You Been On?

In My Humble Opinion
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Somehow I got to thinking about this the other day. I realized that, for someone who wasn’t involved in sports or any other intercollegiate activity, I have been to quite a few college campuses.

These would be:

  1. Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) - I was born in Evanston and visited the place a few years back.
  2. San Diego State University (CA) - My dad went there when I was quite young and my mom occasionally met him there with me in tow.

Despite the two listings above, I grew up primarily in Oklahoma so all of the following are Oklahoma:
3. Central State (now University of Central Oklahoma) - High school band contests and other outings took me here.
4. Philips University (Enid, OK) - More high school band contests.
5. OSU (Stillwater, OK) - More high school band contests.
6. OU (Norman, OK) - Visited for any number of reasons, but never for a high school band contest. Odd.
7. St. Gregory’s (Shawnee, OK) - This is where I actually started my college days.
8. Oklahoma Baptist (Shawnee, OK) - Down the street from SG, I also attended some classes here.

From there I continued my university education at:
9. University of Texas (Austin, TX)

Other miscellaneous:
10. St. Edwards University (Austin, TX) - Attended some event there. I forget what for.
11. University of Dallas (Dallas, TX) - My sister went here and I visited on occasion.
12. SMU (Dallas, TX) - I still go there for the occasional cultural event.
13. TCU (Fort Worth, TX) - I went there for something once. I forget.
14. NYCU (New York, NY) - A company I was working for installed some custom software there and sent me for initial consulting.
15. Penn State (State College, PA) - When I was working for Raytheon they had an office in State College and I went there once. The office wasn’t near campus, but for some reason the hotel they put us up in was RIGHT on the main drag. Go figure.

I have driven through College Station, TX and been near A&M, but never actually set foot on the campus itself, so I don’t count that. So my total’s 15. That should be easy to beat for any of you out there that was a jock or band member, etc., in college.

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2: CU Boulder and Princeton

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I dont know if I have you beat, but while looking around at campuses during high school, I certainly racked up a few.

  1. Current campus, University of Houston

Texas Campuses
2) UT Austin
3) UT Dallas
4) UNT
5) University of St Thomas
6) Texas State
7) Texas Tech
8) Texas A&M
9) A&M Galveston (summer camp, waaay too many mosquitos!)
10) UT Arlington
11) Sam Houston State University
12) Stephen F Austin University

(This reads like an encylopedia of texas campuses, I think I have almost all of them listed here, except baylor)

Out of Texas
13) NYU
14) LSU
15) UC Berkeley
16) Art Institute of San Francisco (Right down the street from our hotel, people were very nice when I started snooping around)
17) UCLA
18) Georgetown
19) Either Florida State or the University of Florida (we stopped during a roadtrip, walked around campus and gathered information)(its the one with the gator mascot)(you can see how bad I wanted to go there!)
20) Harvard
21) MIT

I think thats all. I dont count the ones Ive been to before I started looking for a place to go, or ones I went to since I came here.

This list is pathetic. At least I like the campus Im at now!

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Didn’t go to many colleges when I was in college, but have been to many since.

Places I attended

  1. MIT
  2. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  3. University of Louisiana
  4. William and Mary. (Not really, but to get into the football game free when visiting my gf, now wife, I pretended to be a freshman who needed a temporary registration card. I was in the first year of grad school at the time.

Places my kids attend(ed)
5. University of Chicago
6. University of Maryland.

Places I visited when in college

  1. Harvard
  2. Tufts
  3. LSU
  4. BU
  5. Simmons
  6. Wheelock
  7. Wellesley

Places I’ve given talks or visited professors or gone to meetings

  1. CMU
  2. University of Pittsburg
  3. Stanford
  4. Berkeley
  5. Case Western
  6. UC San Diego
    20 San Jose State

Other random ones
21. Princeton (lived near it.)
22. NYU (when daughter acted in a student film)
23. Columbia
24. Hunter College
25. CUNY
26. Northwestern
27. Quuens College
28. Ohlone College (2 year college near me.)
29 UT Austin
30. Trenton State
31. U. of Pennsylvania
32. San Francisco State

and probably some more I’ve forgotten

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McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (worked at the radio station there)

Mohawk College, Hamilton, Ontario (same as above)

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario (used to practice piano in the music department)

Florida State University, Tallahassee (work for their NPR station, not the student station)

Florida A&M University, Tallahassee (passed through many times)

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  1. Akron U – not far from where I grew up, and both my parents were students there at various times when I was a little kid.

  2. Oberlin – We had band camp there when I was in high school.

  3. Some other college I can’t remember – Band camp senior year.

  4. Cornell – Went to college there.

  5. Kenyon – Visited when deciding what college to go to (made out with some girl in the parking lot).

  6. Georgetwon Main Campus – Ditto, minus the girl.

  7. Princeton – I was in the Cornell marching band, and we travelled to some away games.

  8. Dartmouth – ditto.

  9. Penn – ditto.

  10. Harvard – ditto.

  11. Yale – ditto.

  12. Columbia, but only if the football stadium, which is off campus, counts.

  13. Ohio State – one fall, I drove a high-school friend who went there back to school.

  14. George Washington University – used to work in the area; my wife got her MBA there.

  15. Georgetown law school – got my law degree there.

–Cliffy

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I feel so sheltered. In no particular order:

1- Michigan State University
2- University of Michigan
3- University of Colorado
4- University of Vermont
5- Harvard University
6- Sangamon State University (I think it’s now U of I Springfield)
7- Lansing Community College
8- Muskegon Community College
9- Central Michigan University
10- Eastern Michigan University

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I’m sure I’ll forget a few.

Florida State University
University of Florida
Florida International University
Florida Atlantic University
University of South Florida
University of Oregon
Portland State University
University of Colorado
UCLA
USC
University of California
Long Beach State
UC San Diego
Ohio State University
Ohio University
Otterbein College
Georgia Tech
University of Texas El Paso
Arizona State Univeristy
Northern Arizona University
University of New Mexico

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Indiana University
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Purdue University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Chicago
Illinois State University
Rose Hulman Institute of Technology
Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Augustana College
Hope College

Probably one or two more I missed.

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I’ll have to think for a bit on this one! Not involved in sports in college, so never had a chance to travel for that.

Attended:

  1. Cornell U (Ithaca, NY)
  2. Simmons College (Boston, MA)

Visited friends there:
3. Rutgers U (New Brunswick NJ)
4. St. John Fisher College (Rochester, NY)
5. U. of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
6. RIT (Rochester, NY)
7. Yale (New Haven, CT)
8. Harvard (Cambridge, MA) (also worked there)
9. Worcester State College (Worcester, MA)

Work there:
9. New England College of Optometry

Used to sneak in to use the libraries:
10. MIT (Cambridge, MA)
11. Northeastern U (Boston, MA)
12. Boston U (Boston, MA)

Had various valid reasons to be on campus:
13. Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY)
14. Trinity College (Dublin)
15. Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
16. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
17. Tompkins Cortland Community College (Dryden NY)
18. Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA)
19. UMass Boston (Boston, MA)
20. Emerson College (Boston, MA)
21. Emmanuel College (Boston, MA)
22. Tufts U (Medford, MA)
23. Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)
24. Tufts Medical School (Boston, MA)
25. Sait Ambrose University (Davenport, IA)

Had various questionable reasons to be on campus
26. Nichols College (Dudley, MA)
27. Wells College (Aurora, NY)
28. Nazareth College (Rochester, NY)
29. Daytona Beach Community College (Daytona Beach, FL)
30. Berklee School of Music (Boston, MA)

I’m going to quit now, since I just realized this may not be a fair question for me to answer - you can’t walk 2 blocks around here without ending up on someone’s campus.

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  1. Well, the one I work at (UNC Chapel Hill)
  2. NC State
  3. Lake Erie College
  4. Bowling Green State University (my alma mater)
  5. Ohio State
  6. Ohio University
  7. University of Toledo
  8. Case Western Reserve
  9. Kent State
  10. Hiram College
  11. Denison University
  12. John Carroll
  13. University of Akron
  14. Harvard
  15. MIT
  16. University of Wisconsin (Madison)
  17. Union Theological Seminary
  18. Columbia
  19. SUNY (at New Paltz)
  20. West Point
  21. New England Conservatory of Music
  22. Tulane
  23. Old Dominion University
  24. College of William and Mary
  25. Eastern Mennonite University
  26. University of Virigina
  27. Regent University

If community colleges count, then:

  1. Cuyahoga Community College
  2. Lakeland Community College
  3. Durham Tech
  4. Tidewater Community College
  5. Colorado Mountain College
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  1. Brandeis (for my sister’s graduation)
  2. Emerson (for my brother’s graduation)
  3. Hofstra (for “open house” and various performances at their theatre
  4. Purchase (for interview & later for interSUNY theatre festival)
  5. New Paltz (for undergraduate studies)
  6. Binghamton (for interSUNY theatre festival)
  7. Albany (for interSUNY theatre festival)
  8. Trenton (for Mensa conference)
  9. Syracuse (for Mensa conference)
  10. Stonybrook (for SF convention)
  11. Nassau Community (for Adult Ed classes)
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(I bet I win for “highest number of schools no one else has ever heard of”!)

  1. Current school: St. John’s College in Santa Fe

Visited as a prospective student, whether or not I even applied and/or was actually interested in (vs. parents being interested in me going there):
2. St. John’s College in Annapolis
3. Earlham College in IN
4. Warren Wilson College, NC
5. Guilford College, NC
6. Antioch College, OH
7. Bennington College, VT
8. Lyndon State College, VT
9. Juniata College, PA
10. Eugene Lang College, NY
11. Alleghany College, PA

Have been on the campuses for other reasons (summer camp, visiting people, my sister looked there and I got dragged along, concerts, stopping to use the bathroom while on a road trip, etc)
12. US Air Force Academy, CO
13. US Naval Academy, MD
14. College of New Jersey
15. Rutgers Univ.
16. Rowan Univ.
17. Temple Univ.
18. UPenn
19. Penn State
20. Washington College, MD
21. Dickenson College, PA
22. Johns Hopkins Univ.
23. Georgia Tech
24. Embry Riddle
25. Florida Tech
26. Duke
27. Virginia Tech
28. NC State
29. UNC
30. College of Santa Fe
31. Colorado College
32. NYU
33. Drew Univ.
34. American Univ.

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  1. Brandeis (got my BA)
  2. CMU (PhD)
  3. Washington University in St. Louis (post doc)
    Other campuses of note:

Northwestern
University of Pittsburgh (notice the h at the end of Pittsburgh…)
Harvard
St. Louis University
Tulane
UC San Deigo
SUNY BUffalo
CCSU
UCONN
U. New Haven
Trinity
U. Hartford
UI U-C
Duke
U. South Carolina
U. Chicago
Vassar
London School of Economics
York University
University of London
Hebrew University
Wesleyan

I love college campuses.

It’s why I never left…

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oooh, oooh I forgot one-

Colby College! Saw Squeeze in concert there.

16

Not many…

Rutgers University
MIT
University of Washington
Drexel University
Moravian College
as well as a couple community colleges, one of which I am currently attending :slight_smile:

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hmm…let me think. Including sporting events, campus visits, road trips, career fairs, graduations and just being in the neighborhood:

Babson
Bentley College
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis
Colgate
Fairfield University
Fairley Dickenson
Harvard
Lafayette
Lehigh
MIT
Moravian College
NYU
Penn State
Pitt
RPI
Rutgers
Stevens Institute of Technology
Union College
University of Deleware
UConn
UPenn
Villanova
West Point
Yale

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Forgot a few, but was reminded be other dopers’ posts:

Colby College
Wellesley College
Brandeis
Johns Hopkins

(I’m deliberately excluding any I’ve just walked across while in downtown Boston or Cambridge)

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Oh yeah, and Southern CT State University

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U of Toledo
Oberlin College
U of Akron
John Carroll University
Cleveland State
Baldwin-Wallace College (OH)
Muskingum College (OH)
Hiram College (OH)
College of Wooster (OH)
Bowling Green State
Kent State
Ohio U
Ohio State
Michigan
Michigan State
U of Detroit
Kentucky
Miami (FL)
Miami (OH)
Notre Dame
Northwestern
Creighton
UCLA
Southern Cal
Pepperdine
NYU
Columbia
Harvard
Yale
MIT
U of Virginia
Georgia Tech
Georgetown
Chicago-Circle
Loyola (IL)