Amherst College
Amherst, MA · Liberal arts college
1 minwalk to the closest stay
3stays inside a 20-min walk
6stays inside a 10-min drive
Campus visits, state by state
Hotels near colleges in Massachusetts
35 campuses342 places to stay measured
35campusesin MA
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By the numbers
35 schools in Massachusetts are on this site, with 342 places to stay measured around them. At 18 of them a place to stay is no more than about a 10-minute walk from the tour start or the campus edge, and at 22 one is within about 20 minutes. The shortest walk we measured here is about 1 minute, at Amherst College. For 6 of them the tour meeting place comes straight from the school's own visit page.
How to read these counts
A "10-minute walk" is our estimate from map distance to where the visit starts, or to the campus edge when we have not pinned that down; each school's page says which. Map dated November 2026. The full method
Every school we cover in Massachusetts
35 schools in Massachusetts, in A to Z order
Bentley University
Waltham, MA · Private university
8 mindrive to the closest stay13stays inside a 10-min driveBerklee College of Music
Boston, MA · Private university
2 minwalk to the closest stay36stays inside a 20-min walk60stays inside a 10-min driveBoston College
Chestnut Hill, MA · Private university
6 mindrive to the closest stay8stays inside a 10-min driveBoston University
Boston, MA · Private university
6 minwalk to the closest stay12stays inside a 20-min walk60stays inside a 10-min driveBrandeis University
Waltham, MA · Private university
3 minwalk to the closest stay2stays inside a 20-min walk12stays inside a 10-min driveBridgewater State University
Bridgewater, MA · Public university
16 mindrive to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min driveCollege of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA · Liberal arts college
8 mindrive to the closest stay4stays inside a 10-min driveEmerson College
Boston, MA · Private university
1 minwalk to the closest stay60stays inside a 20-min walk60stays inside a 10-min driveEmmanuel College
Boston, MA · Liberal arts college
5 minwalk to the closest stay13stays inside a 20-min walk60stays inside a 10-min driveFitchburg State University
Fitchburg, MA · Public university
1 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk1stay inside a 10-min driveGordon College
Wenham, MA · Liberal arts college
11 mindrive to the closest stay4stays inside a 20-min driveHampshire College
Amherst, MA · Liberal arts college
11 mindrive to the closest stay16stays inside a 20-min driveHarvard University
Cambridge, MA · Private university
2 minwalk to the closest stay6stays inside a 20-min walk38stays inside a 10-min driveHellenic College, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
Brookline, MA · Liberal arts college
7 mindrive to the closest stay9stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA · Public university
1 minwalk to the closest stay6stays inside a 20-min walk9stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of Massachusetts, Boston
Boston, MA · Public university
10 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk20stays inside a 10-min driveMassachusetts College of Liberal Arts
North Adams, MA · Liberal arts college
13 minwalk to the closest stay2stays inside a 20-min walk2stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
North Dartmouth, MA · Public university
6 mindrive to the closest stay6stays inside a 10-min driveMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA · Private university
2 minwalk to the closest stay15stays inside a 20-min walk60stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of Massachusetts, Lowell
Lowell, MA · Public university
1 minwalk to the closest stay2stays inside a 20-min walk8stays inside a 10-min driveMerrimack College
North Andover, MA · Private university
6 mindrive to the closest stay3stays inside a 10-min driveMount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA · Liberal arts college
1 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk2stays inside a 10-min driveNortheastern University
Boston, MA · Private university
13 minwalk to the closest stay18stays inside a 20-min walk60stays inside a 10-min driveSalem State University
Salem, MA · Public university
6 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk10stays inside a 10-min driveSimmons University
Boston, MA · Private university
4 minwalk to the closest stay14stays inside a 20-min walk60stays inside a 10-min driveSmith College
Northampton, MA · Liberal arts college
13 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk3stays inside a 10-min driveStonehill College
Easton, MA · Liberal arts college
6 mindrive to the closest stay1stay inside a 10-min driveSuffolk University
Boston, MA · Private university
1 minwalk to the closest stay60stays inside a 20-min walk60stays inside a 10-min driveTufts University
Medford, MA · Private university
14 minwalk to the closest stay3stays inside a 20-min walk20stays inside a 10-min driveWellesley College
Wellesley, MA · Liberal arts college
16 mindrive to the closest stay13stays inside a 20-min driveWheaton College (Massachusetts)
Norton, MA · Liberal arts college
11 mindrive to the closest stay3stays inside a 20-min driveWilliams College
Williamstown, MA · Liberal arts college
1 minwalk to the closest stay7stays inside a 20-min walk13stays inside a 10-min driveWorcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA · Private university
1 minwalk to the closest stay5stays inside a 20-min walk10stays inside a 10-min driveWorcester State University
Worcester, MA · Public university
11 mindrive to the closest stay13stays inside a 20-min drive
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About these lists
Which colleges in Massachusetts do you cover?
35 four-year schools in Massachusetts: the larger public and private universities plus the liberal arts colleges families tour most. For-profit and online-only schools are left out.
Can you walk from a hotel to campus at schools in Massachusetts?
At 22 of the 35, the map shows a place to stay no more than about a 20-minute walk from the tour start or the campus edge. Each school's page lists them closest first.
Do the pages cover graduation as well as tours?
For 6 of these schools we've read the commencement venue on the school's own page and show it. Every page explains what its minutes run to, and the graduation guide covers when rooms sell out.
Where do the walking minutes come from?
From OpenStreetMap distances, turned into minutes by a fixed rule. Breakfast is listed for 33 schools' nearby hotels by brand standard. How the minutes are measured.