The following are ideas for regional college tours. These lists of colleges and universities are not exhaustive; they provide samples of colleges and universities students might visit on a single visit to a major geographical area.

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Greater Boston (Click for Map of Sample Tour Route): Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston College, Tufts University, Brandeis University, Babson College, Olin College of Engineering, Brown University, College of the Holy Cross, Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Smith College, Williams College

Greater Cleveland (Click for Map of Sample Tour Route): Case Western Reserve University, Allegheny College, College of Wooster, Kenyon College, Denison University, The Ohio State University, Oberlin College

Greater Philadelphia (Click for Map of Sample Tour Route): Swarthmore College, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College, Princeton University, Lafayette College, Lehigh University, Franklin & Marshall College, Villanova University

Iowa (Click for Map of Sample Tour Route): Grinnell College, Coe College, Cornell College, University of Iowa, Knox College, Simpson College

New York (Click for Map of Sample Tour Route): New York University, Fordham University, Vassar College, Colgate University, University of Rochester, Barnard College, Columbia University

New York / Connecticut (Click for Map of Sample Tour Route): New York University, Fordham University, Vassar College, Yale University, Wesleyan University, Connecticut College, Brown University, Colgate University, University of Rochester

North Carolina (Click for Map of Sample Tour Route): Davidson College, Wake Forest University, Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Southern California (Click for Map of Sample Tour Route): Claremont Colleges (Claremont McKenna College, Pomona College, Scripps College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College), Occidental College, University of Southern California (USC), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Thomas Aquinas College