College Visit Planner

To help you plan visits to colleges, we have put together a few pre-planned college tours. These give you a sense of the proximity of various schools and how you might organize your own tour. Most people find that two visits per day allows enough time to fully explore each campus. These tours likely contain many more colleges than you would want to visit in one tour; you can freely modify these trips in Google Maps.

As you plan, be sure to visit individual colleges' Web sites in order to get informaiton about tours, info sessions and area accommodations.

You might also want to check out the Pocket Guide to Choosing a College, published by the National Survey of Student Engagement. This guide lists a number of questions that research has shown to be linked to high levels of student learning and development during college.

Example College Tour Driving Routes

• Colleges along I-95 between New York City and Maine
  There are a number of colleges that can easily be visited along this heavily traveled corridor in the northeast.
• Small Pennsylvania Liberal Arts Colleges
  With dozens of colleges in southeasten Pennsylvania, this region is well-suited to a 2-3 day driving tour.
• Southern California Colleges
  A driving tour of a number of Los Angeles area colleges and universities.
• Colleges in Virginia
  This arc allows you to see a wide variety of colleges, from rural to urban, large to small, technical institute to liberal arts, and with a range of selectivity.