Road Trips

You're about to spend four years of your life on a college campus; you need to make sure it feels right. So, hit the road—we did. We took nine road trips to every corner of the country. Here's what we found.

CHICAGO

Windy City Wonder

Are you thinking about going to college in a big city? We checked out a variety of different schools that call the famously vibrant Second City home.

COLORADO

Scaling Colorado Colleges

From way up north in Fort Collins, through big city Denver, and down to Colorado Springs in the south, we toured four schools in the beautiful Centennial State.

FLORIDA

Sampling Some Sunshine

Get a nice cross-section of America's beach state, where we visited two state schools, a historically black university, and an art and design school.

MID-ATLANTIC

A Taste of Tarheel Territory

We looked at three possibilities in North Carolina's strong state system. Then, to sample what neighboring states had to offer, we drove to Blacksburg, Va.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Surfing to a Science Degree

We set out from Los Angeles to find four colleges or universities in Southern California that might interest a high school senior with a talent for science.