There are two important universities in New York City: NYU and Columbia. NYU's campus, faculty and student residences are located at the heart of Greenwich Village, around Washington Square Park.
You get a completely different feel when you visit Columbia's neoclassical campus in Morningside Heights on the Upper West Side. Columbia is an Ivy-League School, which is an athletic conference composed of eight private higher education institutions in the Northeast of the United States, often synonymous with academic excellence. (The other Ivy-League schools are Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University).
You can take day trips by train to visit Princeton in New Jersey (approximately one hour from New York) or Yale in New Haven, Connecticut (aproximately two hours from New York). Both are very much worth visiting, with gothic-style campuses that are simply beautiful and located at the heart of both towns.
The movie "A Beautiful Mind" was shot in Princeton and the first installment of "Spider-Man" has scenes shot in the plaza at Columbia.
Other interesting campuses to be visited are Harvard and MIT in Boston, but that's another trip...
(Photo: Princeton University)
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