15 Colleges Where Geek Is Chic

Not every college is tailored toward the student who grew up wearing sweater vests and obsessing over their new TI-83 calculator.

However, there are some schools, both public and private, where a geek would fit in well.

Here are 15 chosen by Inside College's experts, in alphabetical order below. What do you think? Which ones did they miss?

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[juliecandicem2]

02:34 AM on 02/24/2012

You missed a big geek school that is geekier than several of the mild examples you gave. That school is Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (The 'Tute) in Troy, NY. Most of the others on your list are just amateurs.

[rosenheh]

09:44 AM on 02/23/2012

you forgot about Carleton! Haven't experience both Carleton and CWRU, Carleton belongs much more than CWRU.

[rosenheh]

09:46 AM on 02/23/2012

*having experienced

[white dude lulz]

09:47 PM on 02/22/2012

Carnegie Institute of Technology Dean's Fellowship betches!!!

[pjburke]

07:11 PM on 02/23/2012

Jeeeez... it hasn't been Carnegie Tech since.... um.... lessee.... well.... ahhh.... a long, long time!

Was Dick Cyert the university president then? Nah, musta been Stever... Cyert was still teaching then.

[JoshInPgh]

12:58 AM on 02/24/2012

Carnegie Tech still exists, only it's now just the engineering school within CMU.

[Lawrener]

09:02 PM on 02/22/2012

Considering the fact that Rose Hulman's mascot is the Fightin' Engineer, I dare say they deserve their spot on this list.

[Mathgirl]

03:57 PM on 02/22/2012

Need to add Michigan Technological University to this list.

[JoshInPgh]

12:59 AM on 02/24/2012

Hockey schools need not apply. Virginia Tech would be on the list before Michigan Tech.

[hopein2012]

10:23 AM on 02/22/2012

Every time I hear Swarthmore, I think of that song by the Mamas and the Papas.

[JScott]

10:17 AM on 02/22/2012

Cal Tech-Drs. Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstater's workplace.

[Knightro829]

09:53 AM on 02/22/2012

In hindsight, I really wish I had taken a closer look at Rice. Everyone I've met who attended seems very smart, very well-educated, and very down to Earth. Must be a fun place to get a top-quality education.

[any mouse]

09:18 AM on 02/22/2012

UCSD also has Blacks Beach - clothing optional - right at the edge of the campus.

[hopein2012]

10:23 AM on 02/22/2012

lol yep, that is quite a hike to the bottom.

[any mouse]

12:51 AM on 02/23/2012

Then do what the conservative Christians do and stand on the end of the glider runway with high-power binoculars and comment about the "immoral" nude people on the beach.

Actually there is a nice road with a fairly easy slope down to the beach from the edge of the campus.

[any mouse]

09:15 AM on 02/22/2012

UCSD started out as a graduate level only university (Scripps), then later added science and engineering upper classes and only after quite a few years finally added freshmen and sophomores. It wasn't until the lower division was added that they needed humanities (the standard general education classes) . When they added the medical school the humanities folks were really, really out numbered by the engineers, scientist and doctors. It is a great school with very rigorous academics.

[Underabridge]

01:16 PM on 02/22/2012

lol UCSD and good school in the same sentence? Not even in the top 30 =/

[any mouse]

12:47 AM on 02/23/2012

Actually UCSD is in the top ten of most science and engineering school lists, both US and world-wide

[getreal23]

08:53 AM on 02/22/2012

My son applied to Worcester. Don't know if he would like to hear it's one of the geekiest.

[13champlain]

08:45 AM on 02/22/2012

Good to see Rice and RIT on there....great schools. RIT has a good hockey program

[cet1445]

08:43 AM on 02/22/2012

I went to RIT. 100% accurate. Still a great school with tons of diversity

[lifeiscalling]

08:40 AM on 02/22/2012

Let's be honest here. It wasn't a TI-83. It was a TI-89.

[JimNast]

08:34 AM on 02/22/2012

Johns Hopkins, Reed, Swarthmore, and UCSD over RPI, Renssalear Polytechnic Institute? Kinda like PolitiFact, if you can't get them right, don't do them...