Bethany Lutheran College
Mankato, MN · Liberal arts college
15 minwalk to the closest stay
2stays inside a 20-min walk
14stays inside a 10-min drive
Campus visits, state by state
Hotels near colleges in Minnesota
18 campuses280 places to stay measured
18campusesin MN
Photo: BpA9543, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shows Minneapolis; cropped.
By the numbers
18 schools in Minnesota are on this site, with 280 places to stay measured around them. At 9 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 12 one is within about 20 minutes. The shortest walk we measured here is about 1 minute, at Carleton College. For 1 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 Minnesota
18 schools in Minnesota, in A to Z order
Carleton College
Northfield, MN · Liberal arts college
1 minwalk to the closest stay4stays inside a 20-min walk6stays inside a 10-min driveCollege of Saint Benedict
Saint Joseph, MN · Liberal arts college
2 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk2stays inside a 10-min driveConcordia College at Moorhead
Moorhead, MN · Liberal arts college
6 mindrive to the closest stay12stays inside a 10-min driveConcordia University, Saint Paul
Saint Paul, MN · Private university
7 mindrive to the closest stay5stays inside a 10-min driveGustavus Adolphus College
Saint Peter, MN · Liberal arts college
9 minwalk to the closest stay2stays inside a 20-min walk5stays inside a 10-min driveMacalester College
Saint Paul, MN · Liberal arts college
7 mindrive to the closest stay4stays inside a 10-min driveMetropolitan State University
Saint Paul, MN · Public university
6 mindrive to the closest stay14stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of Minnesota, Duluth
Duluth, MN · Public university
6 mindrive to the closest stay21stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of Minnesota, Morris
Morris, MN · Liberal arts college
9 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk3stays inside a 10-min driveMinnesota State University, Mankato
Mankato, MN · Public university
5 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk4stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN · Public university
9 minwalk to the closest stay7stays inside a 20-min walk50stays inside a 10-min driveSaint Cloud State University
Saint Cloud, MN · Public university
4 minwalk to the closest stay3stays inside a 20-min walk7stays inside a 10-min driveSaint Johns University
Collegeville, MN · Liberal arts college
1 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk1stay inside a 10-min driveSouthwest Minnesota State University
Marshall, MN · Public university
1 minwalk to the closest stay4stays inside a 20-min walk9stays inside a 10-min driveSt Olaf College
Northfield, MN · Liberal arts college
15 minwalk to the closest stay3stays inside a 20-min walk6stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of St Thomas
Saint Paul, MN · Private university
11 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk5stays inside a 10-min driveWinona State University
Winona, MN · Public university
8 mindrive to the closest stay8stays inside a 10-min drive
Nothing on this list fits. Try the main search.
About these lists
Which colleges in Minnesota do you cover?
18 four-year schools in Minnesota: 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 Minnesota?
At 12 of the 18, 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 1 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 16 schools' nearby hotels by brand standard. How the minutes are measured.